“Through the labor of woodcut printmaking and hand-coloring, my current work is centered primarily around my relationship to birds. Stemming from an early childhood fixation with learning about and imitating birds, my woodcut images are built by way of expressive mark-making and color. Their titles often share my own “names” for specific birds, nodding to their traits and symbolism. This work advocates respect and admiration for nature and the environment.”

Ryan Kalentkowski is a printmaker and hand-colorist living in the Lower Connecticut River Valley of Connecticut. Ryan holds a BFA from Paier College of Art and has exhibited work regionally and nationally. Ryan’s day job for more than a decade has been in textile screen printing as a printer, production artist and screen maker.

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contact: sternapress@gmail.com