Craig Mindell recently donated over 120 woodcut matrices. Mindell usually prints his images using three color separations, one wood matrix per color. These matrices span some 30 years and, as a result, one can follow the arc of Mindell’s skill and sensitivity to the process over a long period. He also uses a unique approach to carving. Whenever possible, the woodcuts, executed on cost efficient plywoods, are carved with the grain in long and short lines, creating vertical textures in his work. The parallel lines add visual noise and vibration, energizing the images and down-sizing the resolution of his pictures as if snatched from a memory.

Barret in Three Color, 1992; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 1016 x 608 mm

Barret in Three Color, 1992; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 964 x 610 mm

Barret in Three Color, 1992; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 1016 x 610 mm

Barrett in Three Color, 1992; Woodcut; Image size: 967 x 669 mm

Mara Almost Twenty, 1999; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 939 x 612

Mara Almost Twenty, 1999; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 913 x 605

Mara Almost Twenty, 1999; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 967 x 609

Mara Almost 20, 1999; Woodcut; Image: 935 x 635 mm

E 6th St, 2014; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 957 x 611 mm

E 6th St, 2014; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 909 x 597 mm

E 6th St, 2014; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 909 x 597 mm

drawing for E 6th St, 2014; Graphite on paper; Image size: 909 x 597 mm

E 6th St, 2014; Woodcut; Image size: 910 x 594 mm

Gloria, 1995; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 913 x 610

Gloria, 1995; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 913 x 610

Gloria, 1995; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 913 x 610

Gloria, 1995; Woodcut 2/20; Image size: 913 x 610

Taking the Sun, 1995; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 608 x 935 mm

Taking the Sun, 1995; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 962 x 609 mm

Taking the Sun, 1995; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 963 x 610 mm

Taking the Sun, 1995; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 963 x 607 mm

Taking the Sun, 1995; Woodcut 2/20; Image size: 976 x 605 mm

Sunlight Thru Glass, 2014; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 949 x 612

Sunlight Thru Glass, 2014; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 916 x 607

Sunlight Thru Glass, 2014; Woodcut matrix; Image size: 917 x 603

Sunlight Thru Glass, 2014; Woodcut 9/20; Image size: 915 x 607 mm