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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

We will miss you Katie

Sadly Katie ended her six year tenure at Silicon and will be greatly missed by everyone here, we wish her the best in her new adventure.


Here is a message from Katie








Hello Silicon Customers and Friends,

I have some news for you all!  I am leaving Silicon at the end of the May to pursue my own photography and continue building my gallery Gravy.  Thank you all for being great artists and friends to work with during these last 6 years. 

If you have any questions or print orders, please email Caity at Caity@siliconfineartprints.com or our new Silicon printing assistant Patrick at patrick@siliconfineartprints.com .  I have written down notes under your accounts so files can easily be found and all your paper and size information has been saved in our invoicing system.  I will be in a couple days a week through the month of May if you need anything from me.

Special thanks to Rick, Caity, Steven, Kaitlin, Colleen, Stephanie, Vince, and Pogo the dog for being awesome coworkers!

Thanks again,

Katie Tackman
Amazing Show at Temple Contemporary















This picture does not do the show justice, Polly Apfelbaum covered the gallery in wallpaper and hand made rugs for an amazing effect. Silicon printed the wallpaper on a special self adhesive material which is repositionable and designed to be removed easily and without damage to the walls. We printed over 60 rolls 42” wide and mostly over 14’ high. If you visit make sure you check out the other gallery and Dan Cole’s complimentary installation.


Special Offer on PhotoTEX
PhotoTEX is the commercial name for the self adhesive material we used for the show and for a limited time and while stocks last you can print on this material for HALF PRICE - $20 per linear foot (that’s $5.72 a square foot). E-mail us for specifications or more information – info@siliconfineartprints.com

Friday, October 5, 2012

Art Tonight in Philadelphia

Eileen Neff - Still Life
Okay, okay, so we have not posted in a while but with many exciting events coming up for Silicon and our artists it's time to get back on it. So, armed with a fancy new phone (well not that new) I am off and blogging.

First Fridays in Philadelphia we normally stay open a little late but with the our serious space constraints the gallery has taken a back seat to the printmaking studio. This First Friday we will be venturing out to three important galleries (to us anyway).

Eileen Neff has, what promises to be, an amazing show at Bridgette Mayer Gallery on Walnut Street, we printed and mounted a bunch of works for the show and they are stunningly beautiful. Can't wait to see it in a gallery setting.

Second on the list is "Fresh Impression" at the Projects Gallery in Northern Liberties, a show in partnership with the Brandywine Workshop
Shirley Steele
I was honored to be a juror for the show along with Raphael Damast, Exhibitions Director, Taller Puertorriqueño; Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Elizabeth F. Spungen, Executive Director, The Print Center. The show is intended to extend the impact of Full Spectrum at the Philadelphia Museum of Art of selected works from Brandywine. It's a great show and well worth a visit to the Museum.

Finally on our list is Gravy Studio where one of our friends and customers Mark Havens is showing Monster Factory  a series of works uniquely printed on gold anodized aluminum sheets, very cool and apparently indestructible! One of Gravy's directors is our own Katie Tackman.

Mark Havens

Posted by Rick

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Out of Office



A little off-topic but a work of art nevertheless, meet our (Sabrina and Rick's) daughter Violet.

Now you can understand that out of office message!

Posted by Dad!  

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

More Mac fun How to Smoke a Drive!

We have an old Mac running OS9.0 mainly because we have a very expensive scanner and Apple decided at some point in the past to not support SCSI (despite them being SCSI evangelists).

So after the the iMac crashed and could not be revived (a big shout of thanks to Diskwarrior which managed to recover practically all of the files) I thought it would be prudent to back up the OS 9.0 Mac. I plugged in my trendy Firewire external hard drive and, yes you guessed it, the older OS smoked the drive. (once again a big thanks to Disk Warrior for a pretty much complete recovery of data).

What have we learned from this? Apple upgrades their hardware and OS without ANY regard to previous models. I guess the reason they do this is because they can, unlike Microsoft, who just make the software and their hardware vendors drive them to support practically everything from he past.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Friday, March 6, 2009

The New York Time and the Armory Show




If you go to The Amory show in New York and happen on Philadelphia's Cereal Art booth you will find a great print by Hank Willis Thomas and Ryan Alexiev based on an original work - not quite as archival as our print - it's made of cereal, yes, breakfast cereal. The work is of Obama and already had some sales even before the opening, a good cue for the art economy we hope.

The New York Times has an interesting article about the show and a picture of the work.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/arts/design/06armo.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&emc=eta1

You can buy the work through Cereal Art's on-line store at http://www.cerealart.com/home.asp.