"Flipping through a book in Mullowney's library, the two found a series of small Belgian prints, each no bigger than a dollar bill, from the 1600s about the Thirty Years War, "considered by some to be the first anti-war art," Birk said. As they toyed with ideas for a similar project, Birk's wife weighed in, suggesting large-scale prints. Mullowney then suggested they use wood."
""We jumped in his pickup truck and went to Home Depot and got the biggest pieces of wood we could find in Maui," Birk said. A year and a half and 15 sheets of plywood later, the two had produced a visual history of the American war in Iraq, The Depravities of War, jointly published by presses in Maui and California. That's the modus operandi the 65-year-old Mullowney brings to Portland, where he built a sprawling shop right after the pandemic hit."
Sandow Birk had no printmaking experience until he began working with Paul Mullowney in 2004. Mullowney invited Birk to his Hawaii studio and they developed a project inspired by 1600s Belgian prints about the Thirty Years War, aiming for large-scale wood prints. They acquired large plywood and produced The Depravities of War, a visual history of the American war in Iraq, jointly published by presses in Maui and California. Paul Mullowney later built a sprawling print shop in Portland after the pandemic, offering collaboration, workshops, internships, apprenticeships, and artist-in-residence opportunities that serve nonprofits, schools, and professional artists regionally and internationally. Analog printmaking from Mullowney's shop has appeared in exhibitions at Linfield University.
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