Ray Seebeck

Bloomfield Hills, MI

Prints

Biography

Ray Seebeck is a printmaker, artist, and publisher whose practice is grounded in traditional hand-printed processes, particularly reduction woodcut. They studied reduction linocut techniques with Scott Reed before earning a BFA in Print Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and are currently pursuing an MFA in Print Media at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

While working with artist Oli Watt at Free Range, an artist-run studio and gallery space in Chicago, Seebeck produced an extensive body of reduction woodcuts, primarily landscape-based, before expanding into figural and interior imagery. Their practice also includes linocut, intaglio, etching, and screenprinting.

Alongside relief processes, Seebeck develops analog silkscreen prints generated from hand-drawn Duralar positives, using Posca marker drawings to create layered imagery that is then exposed to screens and printed by hand. Across these processes, and drawing from personal photography, fashion imagery, and film, they are interested in how pattern can obscure the figure and complicate the relationship between figure and ground.

Mississippi Mud, silkscreen, 2026
Alma and Elisabet in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966), silkscreen, 2026
A Grove I Used to Play in as a Kid, woodcut, 2024
Magical Thinking, linocut, 2026