s3e48 lithography deep dive with printer/publisher Deb Chaney

Platemark: prints and the printmaking ecosystem

In episode s3e48, Platemark host Ann Shafer speaks with Deb Chaney, Tamarind-trained master printer specializing in lithography. She has an eponymous imprint, Deb Chaney Editions and has started a new venture with Stéphane Guilbaud—D&S Fine Art Editions—to whom she is fairly recently married. They have studios in Upstate New York (studio to be built), Paris, and LaForce, France.

Ann and Deb talk about the beauty of litho stones, common problems that come with printing lithographs, why litho inks are more saturated than other types of inks, how the Tamarind program works, why printers are the nexus of the whole system, and the surprising differences between the print ecosystem in France versus the United States. Deb is a delight and super knowledgeable. You’ll learn more about the chemistry of lithography (adding to the history of litho we got from Michael Barnes in episode 25), and so much more.

Ethan Murrow (American, born 1975). Quietude, 2022. 4-color stone lithograph. 62 ½ x 47 in. Published by D&S Fine Art Editions.

Dasha Shishkin (American, born Moscow, 1977). 9 Pickles, 2020. Portfolio of 9 stone lithographs. Each: 16 x 12 in. Published by Deb Chaney Editions.

Deb Chaney sponging the stone for Dasha Shishkin’s lithograph Good Night and Good Luck, 2021.

Art Spiegelman (American, born Stockholm, 1948). Trump L'oeil, 2018. 7-color stone lithograph. 30 x 22 in. Published by MEL Publisher; printed by Deb Chaney Editions.

Beauvais Lyons (American, born 1957). Flea Circus, 2015. Lithograph. Hokes Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Anita Jung (American, born 1960). Hole in the Sky, 2019. Acrylic on paper. 30 x 22 in.

A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries. Curated by Lauren Rosenblum and Christina Weyl. September 21–December 23, 2023. Print Center New York, 535 West 24th Street.

Dread Scott and Jenny Polak at work in D&S Fine Art Editions’s studio, Paris.

Dread Scott (American, born 1964) and Jenny Polak (American, born 1974). Délivré, 2023. 8-color stone lithograph. 37 1/2 x 28 ½ in. (96 x 72 cm.). Published by D&S Fine Art Editions.

D&S Fine Art Editions’s studio in La Force, Bergerac, France.

Ethan Murrow at work in D&S Fine Art Editions’s studio.

Deb Chaney (American, born 1978). La Habana, 2014. Monotype collage. 20 x 32 in.

Publisher Spotlight: D&S Fine Art Editions. Installation at Print Center New York, 2023, featuring lithographs by Dread Scott and Jenny Polak, Ethan Murrow, and Dasha Shishkin.

Stéphane Guilbaud (left) and team in the D&S Fine Art Editions’s Paris studio.

The giant Voirin Press in D&S Fine Art Editions’s Paris studio with Ethan Murrow’s Quietude, 2022.