The printing work of Atelier Four will be on display in Keuka College’s Lightner Gallery through Oct. 12.
The exhibit is free and open to the public. Lightner Gallery is located in Lightner Library. Gallery hours through Sept. 19 are Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, noon-6 p.m.; and Sunday, noon-11 p.m. Starting Sept. 20, hours are 7:30 a.m.-12 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, and noon-12 a.m. on Sunday.
Atelier Four is comprised of four printmaking artists—Amy Buchholz, Bruce Muirhead, Jake Muirhead and Bill Salzillo—who share a passion for drawing-based printmaking and the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Professor of Art at Hamilton College for 35 years, Bruce Muirhead teaches painting and drawing and runs the printshop. A member of The Society of American Graphic Artists, The Copley Society and The Boston Printmakers, he has exhibited his work in numerous national and international exhibitions and is in many public and private collections throughout the United States.
Also a professor of art at Hamilton College, Salzillo learned printmaking as a student at Rhode Island School of Design and later studied lithography with Garo Antresian, a founder of the Tammarind Institute at the University of New Mexico. Inspired by his curatorial research as director of Hamilton’s Emerson Gallery, Salzillo’s recent prints reference a combination of real and imagined historical events in Northern New York.
A mentor to Muirhead and Salzillo, Buchholz studied art at Kirkland College and Hamilton Colleges. She earned a M.F.A. at the University of Buffalo, where she was the studio assistant of Harvey Breverman, director of the printmaking program. She is a past recipient of The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Graphics.
Jake Muirhead earned a M.F.A. in printmaking at GeorgeMasonUniversity. He has exhibited his etchings and garnered awards in national and international juried print shows. Muirhead is associate printmaker at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, Md. He also teaches drawing at Montgomery College and printmaking at the Washington Waldorf School.
