Erica Criss is a Consultant, Curator, and Advocate for the Arts who lives and works in NYC. She is the founder of CRISS Collaborations, a consulting and management business for under-represented artists looking to take their careers to the next level. In 2012, Criss received her MFA from Kent State University, completing her thesis work in fine art printmaking, specifically intaglio. She is an original founder of Rubber City Prints (RCP), a non-profit printmaking studio located in Akron, Ohio, where she is still an active Board Member and Exhibition Chair. Among the landmark exhibitions she has curated, she is most known for Divergent Ink, Color High, and most recently, the Women’s Printmaking Invitational 2022. For the past 10 years, Criss has worked in the NYC non-profit art sector, most recently she was the Operations Director of the Manhattan Graphics Center (MGC), a fine art printmaking studio in Midtown Manhattan where she developed and produced dozens of printmaking exhibitions, most notably, the NY International Miniature Print Exhibition and Print Effect: Small Works/Big Impact.
Best in Show – Joseph Ramos, “Two Burins,” engraving on copper, $300Honorable Mention – Henry Roux, “317 E 10th St,” linocut, $60Second Place – Lisa Dinhofer, “Marble #1,” etching, $300Honorable Mention – Patricia L. Giraud, “Wayne,” hand-colored etching, aquatint, and drypoint, $75Third Place – L. Sky Nida, “I hate sex,” etching on paper with chine colle, $60Hannah Phelps, “Lively Pair”, Multiblock relief, Akua on Stonehenge $200.Merle Perlmutter, “Final Finial AP”, Intaglio $140.Miki Nagano, “Before the Dawn”, Monotype $120.Lynn Newcomb, “A Giacometti Head 1”, Etching $200.Andrea Kornbluth, “Cocina Latina”, Wood Engraving $75.Veronique Coutant-Godard, “Refuge”, Linocut $70.Jean Allemeier Boot, “Dune’s Edge”, Drypoint $95.RM Gallinari, “Coffee, anyone?”, Woodcut $150.Alan Petrulis, “Coney Island Snowbound”, Etching $75.Cathie Crawford, “Synergy II”, Reduction woodcut monoprint $90.Colleen Pike Blair, “Jo”, Stone lithograph $190.Michele Van de Roer, “Iron Curtain AP”, Photogravure $175.Marina Korenfeld, “City”, Etching $75.Su-Li Hung, “Ground Zero”, Woodcut $200.Cindi Ford, “Pertinacity I”, Wood engraving, reduction, and 2 block mokuhanga $95.Martha Ives, “Winter”, White-Line Woodcut, Pen and Ink $90.Evan Lindquist, “Leap High”, Burin engraving $45.Julie Nadel, “Stop to Smell the Roses”, Linocut + Colored Pencil $60Caroline Thorington, “Fox on Ice”, Lithograph $250.Mary Teichman, “Purple Haze”, Reduction linocut $100.David Avery, “Death and the Maiden”, Etching $300.Margaret Craig, “In the Ground: Hyphae, Fruiting Body, Bacteria, Bottle Cap”, Screen print pulp on handmade paper, chine collé, etching, and flocking $150.Carla Bauer, “The Dance”, Woodcut $100.Cynthia Back, “Silver Coast: Sao Martinho”, Reduction Woodcut $95.DeAnn L. Prosia, “All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go”, Line etching $170.Taka Tamura, “LA-LA-LA (Swing Ride)”, Collagraph hand colored with acrylic $80.David Brubaker, “Pansies”, Drypoint etching $275.Karin Bruckner, “Grounded”, Collagraph with silver leaf, tinted with turmeric and coffee $275.Yuji Hiratsuka, “Bashful Introvert”, Intaglio and chine collé $90.Arthur Geisert, “William Tells Dog”, Plaster printed etching-watercolor $150.Sylvie Covey, “Portrait of youth”, 3 plates photo etching $250.Anita S. Hunt, “Lodge IX”, Etching, aquatint, and chine collé $90.James T. Dormer, “Howl”, Lithograph $275.Mark Walley, “Ghosts of St. George’s”, Linocut $60.Fejzo Lalaj, “Untitled #1”, Linocut $120.Ilse Schreiber-Noll, “Meuschen I”, Woodcut $200.Steven Walker, “Still Life with Black Vase”, Etching and aquatint $50.Amy Silberkleit, “Wasp Nest 10X”, Lithography $75.Lee Ann Frame, “Little Cranberry Island”, Etching and Aquatint $100.Dorothy Cochran, “Nebula 1”, Silk aquatint $100.Elizabeth Daggar, “Brugge 1”, Etching and aquatint $85.Emily Trueblood, “Chrysler Night 4”, Linocut $250.Tomomi Ono, “Rock I-C”, Lithograph on kozo paper $200.Joan O’Connor, “Eugene O’Neill”, Etching $100.Richard Sloat, “Ecological Geometry”, Woodcut $70.Barbara Minton, “Sentinels”, Etching $125.Judy Mensch, “Construct”, Intaglio $75.Yuemei Zhang, “Seeking II”, Linocut $250.Sandra Cardillo, “Conservatory-1”, Intaglio with Surface Roll $150.Julie Nadel, “Glass Half-Full”, Linocut + Colored Pencil $60.Takayo Noda, “Flowers”, Embossed Print $70.Mary Teichman, “Out of the Blue”, Reduction linocut $100.Jayne Reid Jackson, “In a Nutshell”, Mezzotint $200.Margaret Craig, “In the Ground: Cellulose, Penny, Hyphae, Broken Lighter”, Screen print pulp on handmade paper, chine collé, etching, and flocking $150.Melody Knight Leary, “Conflagration”, Photopolymer intaglio-duotone $150.Cynthia Back, “Silver Coast: Peniche”, Reduction Woodcut $95.Kathleen Rabel, “Rice Candy Price”, Hand-colored etching and chine collé $300.Taka Tamura, “LA-LA-LA (Ferris Wheel)”, Collagraph hand colored with acrylic $80.Gregory Lago, “Broken Glass”, Wood engraving $150.Karin Bruckner, “Jack in the Box”, Collagraph with silver leaf, tinted with turmeric and coffee $275Robert Kipniss, “The White Star II”, Mezzotint and chine colle $250.Sigrid Sperzel, “Double”, Intaglio/etching $100.Carol Strause FitzSimonds “Head Study #1”, Polymer plate aquatint and chine collé $45.June Julian, “Wating”, Etching $75.Victoria Salzman, “What really happened at Fish Creek Pond?”, Etching $300.Tokoha Matsuda, “Triceratops”, Woodcut on rice paper, $50.Annamarie Trombetta, “Belvedere Castle”, Hard ground and soft ground etching $450.Harlan Mathieu, “The River”, Hand-colored woodcut $125.Bruce Thayer, “Patriot”, Intaglio $100.Steven Katz, “Ramp I”, Mezzotint and drypoint $250.Diego Briceno, “Clara”, Etching and pochoir $60.Linda Hunsaker, “Silence”, Linocut $75.Joshua Alford, “Note”, Silkscreen on paper $35.Mark Walley, “Ghosts of St. Mary’s”, Linocut $60.Bill Evaul, “Autoportret”, White-Line Color Woodcut $360.Esther Schwalb, “Boots 2020”, Linocut $50.Jennifer Leach, “Pressure E”, Woodcut + Lino on BFK $150.Ellen Nathan Singer, “Small Bouquet”, Woodcut $80.Sandra Cardillo, “Conservatory-2”, Intaglio with Surface Roll $150.Caroline Thorington, “Possum”, Lithograph and chine collé.Takayo Noda, “Dreams in the Moonlight”, Embossed Print $70.David Avery, “Chasing the Dream”, Etching $150.Jayne Reid Jackson, “Big Blue”, mezzotint, 3 plates/color $200.Carla Bauer, “Louis”, Woodcut $100.Melody Knight Leary, “Ablaze”, Photopolymer intaglio-duotone $150.DeAnn L. Prosia, “Neighbors”, Line etching $130.Kathleen Rabel, “Sanctuary”, Hand-colored etching $300.David Brubaker, “Spring”, Drypoint etching $275.Gregory Lago, “Stoning”, Wood engraving $150.Yuji Hiratsuka “Flight Fashion”, Intaglio and chine collé $90.
