Connecticut HQ Art

Steven Ford employs a variety of printmaking techniques in his work. He is primarily interested in breaking down and building up elements of color, using just a few components while maximizing the variety within these elements of pigment, paper choice, scale and printing technique. First, he carves into rectangular linoleum plates and prints onto sheets of Japanese rice paper using a range of colored inks; then he layers and masks the printed sheets onto larger pieces of woven paper and passes the entire assemblage through a press. This causes the papers to merge in a process known as chine collé. The resulting two-layered print has a tissue-thin paper on the top and a large, thicker support below resulting in a subtle and delicate backdrop to the printed image with many overlapping and intersecting forms.

The artist was born in Lafayette, Indiana where he grew up. He studied at Washington University in St. Louis and received his BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.

Ford’s work is included in many permanent collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Detroit Institute of Arts; Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; Helsinki Design Museo, Helsinki, Finland; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Racine Art Museum, Racine WI; Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and Woodmere Art Museum,
Philadelphia, PA.