CAILLEBOTTE SKIPS A STONE (DAVE EGGERS PRINT)

$90.00


DAVE EGGERS SILKSCREEN PRINTS TO BENEFIT THE NEW INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF YOUTH WRITING.

In November, across the street from 826 Valencia, we opened the International Library of Youth Writing. The library features books written by young people from all over the world, and collects all the publications created by 826 Valencia and its sixty sister centers across the globe.

The library started as a pop-up, but now will be expanding and will soon fill most of the space at 849 Valencia Street in San Francisco. To help cover the costs of that expansion, we’re offering a series of prints by Dave Eggers. All of these prints were hand-pulled by Eggers in the new printmaking studio in the basement of the same building—849 Valencia. All proceeds go to the library. We will be adding more over time, at irregular and seemingly random intervals. To see all currently available prints, Click here

I took a screen printing course in high school at a community arts center, and I still have some of the prints I made back then. Nowadays there are all kinds of digital ways to make beautiful prints, but I missed the process of using screens attached to wood frames, and mixing the ink myself, and soaking the screen, then pulling the squeegee over the screen for each color. Kristin Farr and Jeff Meadows have been so great in setting up our new printmaking shop, and the process has been every bit as fun as I hoped.

For the first prints, I set the paper down myself each time, and I allow variations in registration so that every print is unique. That’s the other thing that digitization and standardization eliminates—the chance differences in each print. If you move the screen just a millimeter in any direction, you end up with beautiful accidents that give each print a specific character.

I hope you all see the fun in this, too, and value these variations and oddities.

–Dave

ABOUT THIS PRINT:

CAILLEBOTTE SKIPS A STONE
This is an edition of 20. Each was hand-pulled by Eggers, assisted by Kristin Farr, at the studio at 849 Valencia on October 20. Each is signed and numbered in pencil by Eggers. NOTE: Due to some digital-ish issues, the artwork in the “Caillebotte” print had some odd dots / pixelation, so Dave hand-painted or hand-drew over each. 11″ x 14″