John Mominee:
In many ways, John Mominee is a missing link in
the transition from painting to printmaking and back again.
“I’m trying for purity in form and idea,”
says Mominee.
The Wisconsin resident, a full-time painter/printmaker
since 1994, brushes oil-based etching inks
onto large pieces of Plexiglas, which he then runs through
an etching press.
Then he transfers the image from the plastic plate to a piece
of D’Arches paper.
He is careful to call the result a “transferred
painting,” rather than simply a monoprint. Often, he
mates the watercolor paper and Plexiglas and runs them through
the press more than once, adding line and color to enhance
the finished work’s visual complexity.
Mominee also paints directly on wooden panels and canvas.
This allows the viewer to get a first-hand look at the surface
of his paintings, which are often impressive in scale. Mominee's
work appears in numerous corporate collections and he has
been commissioned for site-specific work through the Katie
Gingrass Gallery for more than 20 years.
~From an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel written
by the late James Auer in 2002.
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John Mominee - Working in the Studio,
June, 2009 |
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Number 4, 30x30 inches - Monotype
on paper |
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Number 3, 49x37 inches - Monotype
on paper |
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Number 2, 24x24 inches - Oil Encaustic
on hardwood panel |
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Number 1, 24x24 inches - Oil Encaustic
on hardwood panel |
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Sarah's Trees, 84x60 inches - Monotype
(sold) |
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| Clearing, 26x51 inches - Monotype
(sold) |
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Two Trees, 49x67 inches - Oil on
Canvas (sold) |
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| Buffalo River
- oil on canvas, 49 x 67 inches (in progress) |
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| Woodmere
Woods - 32 x 40 inches, monotype (sold) |
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| Impending
Storm - 32 x 40 inches - monotype (sold) |
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| Wangfujing
Street (sold) |
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| Chinese
Red, 60x40, monotype (sold) |
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| Alhambra,
60x48 Oil/Acrylic (sold) |
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| Across Monona,
48x80 inches, Oil Monotype (sold) |
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| Yonghegong,
30x30 inches, Oil Monotype (sold) |
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| Parisian
Nights, 32 x 30 inches, monotype (sold) |
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| Trio, 32x30
inches, Oil Monotype (sold) |
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| Winding Way,
48x60 inches, Acrylic (sold) |
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| Arrival,
60 x 48 inches, monotype, (sold) |
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