Parts and Labor: A Survey Exhibition of Print and Collage Works by Steven Ford

Steven Ford (1964) was born in Lafayette, IN. 

Ford layers colors via simply carved linocut blocks and collagraph plates. The linocut blocks are often re-inked and reprinted with the paper shifted to create layering and cross hatched patterns. The collagraph plates print “real” textures from items such as popsicle sticks and lathe from old plaster walls. 

 Ford works quickly, rolling ink onto the blocks and cranking them through an etching press. At times the thin, strong Asian papers are folded like an accordion bellows and printed, then flattened and printed some more.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website