Anthony DiMichele - Print Maker, Artist

Artists' Bio

Anthony DiMichele began his printmaking career in the mid-1980’s, in Seattle, Washington, where he studied Intaglio and Relief printmaking techniques, with Peter Ramsey, via The Experimental College. He was a founding member of Presswork, a Seattle-based printmaking collective; and taught printmaking to developmentally disabled adults, as an
instructor for Creative Living.
Anthony specialized in Mezzotint, after residencies in Nantes, France, studying under the master Mezzotint artist Laurent Schkolnyk.

From the late 1990’s to 2020, he was an active member of the arts community in Friday Harbor, Washington, where he was a founding member of another artists’ collective; manager of Studio7 gallery & printmaking studio; and private printmaking instructor. Anthony was also a guest instructor at Skagit Valley Community College; a participant in the annual San Juan Island Studio Tours; and a participating artist, as well as employee of, the San Juan Island Museum of Art.

Anthony relocated to Wakonda, SouthDakota, in 2020, where he and his art partner, Terri Clark, established a new private art studio and gallery, which they named Cloud Shadow Studio, to reflect their appreciation of the sunshine, big blue skies, puffy white clouds and the beautiful rural landscape of South Dakota.

Anthony's current projects include 'GhostFarms' digital collage series; Art talks and essays on modern art and art history; learning the art of oil painting; and keeping his two studio cats - Honey & Sugar - entertained. Upcoming projects include 'Under the Cloud - Interviews with Creatives'.
Artists' Statement

One must love Black Ink to be a printmaker - All the Blacks - the cool blue-blacks and warm, organic blacks; One must love papers - handmade, imported, machine made and specialty papers; You must know their textures and absorbencies, their strengths and weaknesses, and the right paper for right medium - etching, woodcut, silkscreen, lithography, collagraph etc.; And then there are the plates, blocks and stones used for the matrix from which prints are pulled, not to mention the tools used to work the plates and blocks.
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Black & White, and all the silvery gray tones in between, form a pure, whole fabric that integrates all the various imagery.
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Monochrome is unifying. Colors always compete. They contend by resisting or blending with each other. They can attract or repel., and so, they seem to divide the overall picture into parts or pieces. Color can easily fragment what was whole in Black & White. I liken the cacophony of colors to an orchestra tuning and warming up. It takes a great conductor to create harmony out of such a ruckus.
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print gallery
cOLOR wORK
Collage
Ghost Farm 1
Ghost Farm 2
The Big Deal
It Is The Pen That Dreams
The Haunted Violin
Transparancies
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502 2nd St., Wakonda, SD
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605-760-4246
605-760-4246
antoniozart@gmail.com