Priceville Prints

“Priceville Prints” is a video about collaborative printmaking. Taped at Otis Tamasauskas’ Priceville Ontario studio, the video records the interaction between the printmaker Tamasaukas and the painters Robert Markle and Harold Klunder. The artists are followed through the various procedures of lithography and etching while Tamasauskas discusses and considers with the artists the possibilities and consequences of the media and its techniques. The artists speak about their attitudes to their art in general, their attitude toward printmaking and engage in a critical discussion about the products of the printmaking session. This is not a “how to” video. The video communicates the aesthetic values of printmaking, the experimentation and discovery that takes place during the making of a print, the evaluation of the various states of a print until it is finally declared “ready to print,” and the interpretation and translation of the aesthetics of one art form, painting, into the different media demands of printmaking.