A boxed folio of eight lithographs (8 color)
19 ¾ x 14 ¾ in. (50.5 x 37.5 cm)
Gallery 100 paper
Edition 40
Published by Jungle Press Editions, New York
Boxed folios and individual prints are available.
Beginning with the manipulated photographic image of glowing embers, the eight lithographs in the folio Rolling-Out enact an evolution of concept and form through time. This seed image transforms in each successive print, contracting and expanding the raw matter and space. Implying a cosmology of evolving world and consciousness, each image, each whole/part, pulls the information from its predecessor into a new transformation that then dissolves to be re-imagined in the next. Images generated digitally, images made with cameras, drawings on mylar, direct drawing on plates, are all combined by hand-printing on a 19th C. press to make multi-color lithographs (8 tones from white to black) – high and low tech.
Andrew Mockler, master printer of Jungle Press Editions, worked with Brian Wood to invent techniques for realizing these prints. Wood was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in both graphic art and photography for this project. An illustrated catalogue published by Jungle Press with essay by Michael Madore is available from Brian Wood's New York studio.
A further discussion of the making of Rolling-Out can be found in
Twelve Lithographs, 1986-87 (click to view)
12 lithographs (single color)
36 x 25 in. (91.4 x 63.5 cm)
Arches Cover White paper
Editions of 15 or 20
Published by Downstairs Editions, New York
Drawn directly on zinc plates by Brian Wood at Downstairs Editions, these twelve prints are meditations on world/mind and body/spirit referring to traditions in Gnostic imagery, tantric art, shamanism, and alchemical mind maps. The images were made with lithographic crayons, tusche, varnish, pencils and greasy fingers with no preparatory drawings. Because this simple lithographic process does not really allow erasures, the original impulses are always retained in the final image. The image has its roots in the unconscious but is mediated and developed more rationally as it emerges. The plates were then hand rolled with black ink and individually printed on a lithography press with a single pass per print on Arches Cover paper.
The prints were published by Downstairs Editions with assistance from Joshua Smith. Printed on a lithography press by Donna Shulman.