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PRINTS, DRAWINGS & BOOK ARTS

My work as a printmaker centers on the fusion of screen printing and collage techniques. Through these I unravel and celebrate the multifaceted realms of queer story-telling, familial narratives, and personal identity—especially that of queer domesticity: household-building, the schedules, patterns and routines of ungendered work and the ordinariness of place holding, task-doing and surviving. 
Screen printing serves as my medium for expression, enabling me to layer colors, textures, and meanings with precision, speed and informality. Each printed layer represents a layer of my own story and the stories of those whose lives have intersected with mine. The deliberate act of layering mirrors the complexities of human connections and the strata of personal identity within the queer experience. 
My print-collages, sourced from diverse materials and images, mimic the intricate patchwork of familial narratives. By blending disparate fragments, I evoke conflicting senses of unity and dissonance that often characterize our relationships with family and the past. Through these print-collages, I invite viewers to contemplate their own histories and how they shape their present selves. 
There is a monotony and repetitiveness of the work, often punctuated with color that is developed more through exploration than that of careful planning; this allows processes of printmaking — a repetitive, monotonous one— to be the guiding force of work-making. By extension, the work engages in conversation with craft-making as well: collage, drawing, assemblage, and handiwork. The print-collages are a record of the normalcy of shared life-living: the what’s, how’s and when’s of making space, queer story-telling, familial narratives, and personal identity. 

Dave DiMarchi is a queer, multi-disciplinary artist working in printmaking, papermaking and sculptural book forms. Nurturing ideas into singular and editioned works, he engages in a relentless material practice. As a multi-disciplinary artist, he has exhibited works on paper, installations and books in the US and internationally. In addition to teaching printmaking, papermaking and book forms throughout the New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania area, he maintains a small collaborative studio and art space in New Hope, Pennsylvania. In autumn of 2022, he was announced as the Arts Council of Princeton’s Anne Reeves Artist-in-Residence, through which he developed a practice of collage-based multimedia and print works. He also serves as the Arts Council’s Printmaking Studios Manager and Master Printer. For nearly 15 years, he has created his own work, curated exhibitions, provided print exchange opportunities, and published fine art prints as 9INHANDPRESS, a fine art printmaking and education studio located in New Hope, Pennsylvania. 9INHANDPRESS hosts an annual International Print Exchange that engages printmakers worldwide in a collaborative portfolio and exhibitions.

NEW PRINTS

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​ANONYMOUS (2011) suite of large-scale graphite drawings exploring the ephemerality of singular moments
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Kevin
30x44"

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Grace, Beth & Lisa
30x44"

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Karen
27x44"

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Hayden, Sophia, Elizabeth & Kaitlyn
44x60"

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Evie & Stephanie
30x44"



​SHELTER
 
(2019) Aquatint and Chine Colle with handmade Kozo on BFK, 11x15", edition: 5
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​PERMANENCE (2013-ongoing) silkscreen monoprints on handmade abaca-linen paper, 8x10", open edition
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​FOUNDATIONS
(2015-ongoing) photographic silkscreen prints on Stonehenge, 22x30", edition: 5
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It's The Way He Looks At Me (Marie & Jay)
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Four Walls on Lake Street (Rose & Sal)

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Llama Court Christmas (Anthony & Rose)


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​FINDING-SEEKING
(2018-ongoing) silkscreen monoprints on Rives BFK, 5x7", open edition (60 prints, as of Jan 2020)
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PRINTED MATTER artist books, zines, broadsides & ephemera
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Objecthood
Artist Book, Coptic-bound
Silkscreen, Monoprint, Gouache
​3x3.5"
2015, edition: 2

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Recorders
Artist Book, One-sheet
Offset, Silkscreen
​sticker inclusion
2.5x3.5" folded
2016 (First Edition), edition: 100

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Are We Great Again Yet
Letterpress Broadside
with Hand-applied Gold Leaf on Rives
6x8"
2017, edition: 50

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Freedom of the Press
Letterpress Broadside on French Parchment, 110#
15x22"
2017, edition: 100

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History (Repeated)
Digital Print on Bond
Wheat Paste Wallpaper Installation
(New Hope Arts PressOn! exhibit, July 2018)
2018, edition: open

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Migrants
Reductive Silkscreen
14x20"
​2018, edition: 22

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William & Daisy Myers
Silkscreen, Relief, Letterpress, Gold Leaf
11x14"
2017, edition: 25


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With Proper Planning
​Silkscreen, Relief, Gold Leaf
8x10"
2017, edition: 25

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Dry/Remains
Artist Book, Side-bound
Blind Emboss Letterpress, silkscreen cover panel with hand written inclusions
8x10"
2009/2016, edition: 10

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Like Levittown
Letterpress/Relief
Wheat Paste Wallpaper Installation
(shown in permanent exhibition at PCNJ, Branchburg, NJ)
2016, edition: open

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