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An Interview With Justin Sanz

Here at "Hand Pulled Prints" we want the potential clients, as well as any one interested, to get to know the artists' featured here. These prints are created by hard working folks and we try to provide a little background on the printmakers and why they do what they do.

1. Where are you from?

JS: Long Island, New York 2. When did you start printmaking?

JS: 2002. 3. Where did you learn how to make prints?

JS: The School of Art and Design at SUNY Purchase, The Lower Eastside Printshop, The Kathy Caraccio Print Studio, and The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop 4. What is you favorite style of printmaking?

JS: Reduction woodcuts 5. Can you describe this printmaking technique?

JS: A Reduction woodcut is a multi-color print made off of one block. The image is constructed by making multiple impressions of different states of the same block. In this process I am constantly goining back and forth between cutting and printing and each image usually take a month or more to create. 6. Do you currently have your own printmaking "area", such as a studio or class room?

JS: No, I belong to 2 non-profit communtiy workshops. 7. Who would you say is your favorite printmaker?

JS: Antonio Frasconi, Tom Huck 8. How do you find your subject matter in your work?

JS: The subject matter usually stems from an idea about the human condition I want to convey. 9. Is there something in printmaking, whether it be a style or process, that you do not like?

JS: The fact that I'm going to have horrible carple tunnel, a bad back,and a loopy personality from carving and huffing solvents. 10. Are you a neat and orderly person or messy and like to "spread out"?

JS: Both depending on my mood. 11. Was there any one person or artist that was the reason you started printmaking?

JS: No, I had multiple influences. 12. What would you say is your favorite print that you have ever made? And do you have a picture of it?

JS: My favorite print is always the print I am making currently. 13. How would you describe yourself as a printmaker?

JS: Meticulous. 14. How often do you make prints?

JS: At least 4 days a week. 15. Do you think that your printmaking will change much in the next five years? Why or why not?

JS: My work is constanly evolving. 16. Do you teach at all?

JS: Yes. 17. Are you active in any printmaking organizations or artist groups?

JS: The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop 18. What advice would you give to those people just starting to get into printmaking?

JS: Give em' hell 19. Is there something that you find fulfilling when you have finished a print? What is it? or Can you describe this feeling?

JS: I usually just can't wait to start a new one. 20. Would you say you have been successful in printmaking? Why or why not?

JS: Theres always improvements to me made. 21. What other forms of artwork besides printmaking do you enjoy?

JS: Painting and sculpture. 22. Who are your "heroes"? (they do not have to be printmakers)

JS: Malcolm Morley and Antonio Frasconi.