Ink and Image 2026

Name: Ink and Image 2026
Start: 2026-06-06T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-06-06T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 2305 Dunlavy St, Houston, TX, United States, Texas 77006

Schedule

Sat Jun 06 2026 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2305 Dunlavy St, Houston, TX, United States, Texas 77006 | Houston, TX

https://www.archwaygallery.com/upcoming-exhibitions.html
Ink & Image 2026: Featuring Printmaking by Archway Artists: Beckwith, Berger, Davis, Perkins, Riccetti, Spencer, & Straight
Guest Artists: Liv Johnson, Patrick Masterson, & Charles Tanner
Archway Gallery is pleased to be an exhibitor as part of PrintHouston 2026, a biennial citywide celebration of original prints, the artists who create them, and the people who collect them. This exhibition—titled Ink&Image—features seven Archway Gallery printmakers: Carol Berger, Robin Beckwith, Blaine Davis, donna e perkins, Shirl Riccetti, Liz Conces Spencer, and Robert L. Straight. Archway is also fortunate to have three participating guest artists: Liv Johnson – printmaking instructor at the Glassell School of Art; Patrick Masterson – Master Printer and printmaking instructor at Rice University and University of Houston; and Charles Tanner – printmaking artist at Burning Bones Press. The artists will be present at the opening reception on Saturday, June 6, 2026, to visit with viewers and explain their printmaking processes, with Artists’ Talks at 6:30 p.m. The exhibit will highlight the expressive power of the medium and the diversity of methods used.
Guest Artist: Liv Johnson earned her BA in Art at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and her MFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in Printmaking and Sculpture at Texas Tech University. She now lives in Houston where she is Printmaking Department Head for the Glassell Studio School at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Guest Artist: After studying printmaking at the Glassell School for 20-plus years, Charles Tanner began working at Burning Bones Press in 2015. Though he has worked in etching and relief printing, he has more recently focused on monotypes. A native Houstonian, Charles was educated at Rice University and UT Austin. He then pursued a long-held interest in art, particularly printmaking.
Guest Artist: Patrick Masterson, a master printmaker, has over 20 years’ experience teaching in higher education. As a professional printmaker, Patrick has worked with some of the most well-known artists of today. His expertise spans a broad range of printmaking techniques. Studying at the Rhode Island School of Design, he was awarded an MFA in printmaking in 2000.
Houston printmaker, Blaine Davis, has been making art in Houston for almost 40 years. Totally trained at the Glassell School, his work mainly consists of copper plate etchings and linocuts. He is also known as a tapestry weaver.
Playfully exploring metallic paint, donna e perkins discovered she could develop a surface in which elevated peaks of the paint would catch light and cast shadows. Calling them petite topographies, perkins made a few of these works in 2015. Now, fascinated with the delicate patterns this process can create, and the images obtained by the layers of paint, perkins is making prints.
Shirl Riccetti’s love of a simple bold line, whether thin or thick, shows through her pen work and watercolors. Printmaking, with its long-detailed process, emphasizes this, in graphic designs and opaque sections. Scratchfoam, Riccetti’s choice of a plate for printing, directs her to draw, scratch, cut, and print to produce an energetic, uplifting image. Her printing surfaces include watercolor paper, rice paper, and brown paper, and she creates her prints with acrylic paint, printing ink, and calligraphy ink.
Liz Conces Spencer moved to the Houston Heights area in 1980. A working and teaching artist, she has worked in the art and advertising worlds throughout her adult life and now devotes her time to personal and public art pieces.
Robert L. Straight works across many media, including glass, wood, metal, and printmaking. His prints, whether silkscreen, block, or intaglio, all come from his imagination. A native Houstonian, he began his printmaking at the Glassell School of Art in the early 1960s. He again took up printmaking at University of Houston in 2010 and has continued to the present by being in many of the local print shows.
Robin Beckwith has worked as a writer/photographer in the corporate and journalistic worlds most of her career, participating in several art exhibits during that time. Celebrating her first year as an Archway artist, she prints her original digital works on her own fine art printer using archival pigment inks on archival Hahnemühle paper.
Carol Berger received her degree from the College of Wooster (Ohio), with a double major in art and Spanish. After she retired from teaching public school, Berger took ceramic classes and began to fulfill a lifelong dream—a second career as an artist. She joined Archway Gallery in 2018. Drawing inspiration from everyday life with a focus on the environment, Berger currently creates, sells, and teaches art in the Conroe and Houston areas.