Graphicstudio/USF

Columbian artist Jose Alejandro Restreppo watches as Graphicstudio Research Fellow, Steve Carlisle, checks film through a loupe in 1997.

Steve Carlisle's main focus at Graphicstudio was research into digital "front-end prepress" for traditional hand printmaking.

"it was exciting to try to invent new ways to use computer technologies to help create film positives for use in platemaking. I really enjoyed interacting with artists and guiding them through what was probably a bewildering arsenal of tools that were available to them."

Steve Carlisle, Research Fellow at Graphicstudio in 1997, has worked with artists on an assortment of projects. Lesley Dill, an artist working with Graphicstudio, is shown here working with Steve in his studio is just one. Steve and Lesley, along with printmakers at Graphicstudio combined efforts to create multiples using etching, serigraphy and photogravure. Click here to see some of those pieces.

Steve helped Lesley Dill combine her photos and poetry of Emily Dickinson in a "Public Edition" of four billboards published by Graphicstudio, printed by Polygraphex and displayed in Tampa and Clearwater by Eller Media in the Spring of 1998.

This is Deli Saccilotto, Graphicstudio Director of Research and Photogravure master printer, holding a print of Lesley Dill's, made from film positive printed on the Iris inkjet printer.

This 34 x 46 rear-lit transparency was designed by former Graphicstudio Director, Hank Hine. Thunderbird Editions printed it on IRIS Translite film using the IRIS 3047 inkjet printer.

It is used in a display in the mezzanine in the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in conjunction with the Graphicstudio art exhibit.