These Steel City printers carve image negatives out of chunks of wood before slapping them with oil-based ink and pressing them onto paper; limited-run large works include the map/comic "America the Beautiful" and a tribal still life called "Bonfire", plus they've got collections of smaller prints, eg "Adventurer" (an intrepid diver), plus "Barracuda" (the fish, not the Heart song), plus "Dream Boat" (a boat!) = the "Deep Blue Sea" triptic -- given the extensive use of oil, it's never been truer.

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Published: June 2, 2010 at 4:00am EDT

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