About the artist:

From 1980 to the present, my focus has been on the screen printing process, interrupted by bursts of enthusiasm for other print processes including monotypes, and a strong taste for the relief and intaglio processes. My first memorable art experience as a freshman in art school revolved around seeing an etching being printed. The plate and paper appeared as one thing on the left side of the press, and something else on the right...magic! Nothing else mattered. After that moment, I was hooked. My current body of prints, begun in 1999, represent a renewed interest in the collaging and layering of imagery. The series is associated with many themes, New Orleans cemeteries, germination, the last patented eggbeater, the drug culture, comic characters, issues of memory, and the beginning and the end of life. -Richard Martin Ash Richard passed away February 18th, 2019. EDUCATION Fort Wayne Art Institute, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1963-64 Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, B.F.A. 1966, M.F.A. 1968 Major: Printmaking; Minor: Painting EXPERIENCE: PROFESSIONAL Wichita State University--Wichita, Kansas Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Awarded 1966-67 and 1967-68 University of Washington--Seattle, Washington Visiting Artist, Printmaking, Summer Quarter 1977 Midwestern State University--Wichita Falls, Texas (1968 to present) Teaching responsibility: Printmaking, Drawing, and Gallery Courses Chairman, Department of Art, Fall 1981, Academic Year 1982-83, 1989-2002 Gallery Director and Visiting Artist Program Coordinator, 1978-2002 Oklahoma Arts Institute—Quartz Mountain, Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, October 23-26, 2003 Order of Advancement: Instructor 1968, Assistant Professor 1971, Associate Professor 1974, Professor 1979 Hardin Professor of the Year 1979-80 RESEARCH Midwestern State University, Funded Research 1971 "Polyethylene Transfer Process" 1972 Resident Artist, Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center 1972 "Compositional Enlargement Through Photo-Sensitization" 1973 "Unique Images Created With Polyethylene and Zinc Plates by the Relief Process" 1974 "Photo Process Printmaking as Applied to Stone Lithography, Metal Plate Lithography and Intaglio" 1975 Midwestern State University Foundation, Inc., Lakeside Studio, Lakeside, Michigan 1975 "Development & Preparation of a Circulating Exhibition" 1976 "Microfilm Manipulation as an Image Source" 1977 "A Visual Continuum Founded on the Workshop Concept" 1978 "Investigation into the Visual Potentials of the Agfa-Gevart Repromaster & Its Application to Photo-printmaking" 1979 "The Mono-print, A Reinvestigation" 1980 "An Investigation of the Handmade Paper Process" 1981 "Exploitation of the Intaglio Process" 1982 "Ortho Film Image Resource Development" 1983 "Steel Plates and Their Adaptation to the University Print shop" 1984-86 "Rubber, A New Intaglio Relief Printing Surface" 1986-95 (Midwestern State University did not fund organized research) 1996-97 "An Investigation of Photosensitive Plate-Making and Its Adaptation to Relief and Intaglio Process Printmaking” 1997-98 "An Investigation of ImagOn as a Photographic Matrix" 1998-99 "Further Investigation of ImagOn as a Photographic Matrix" 1999-00 "Photo-Polymer Film / Image Development" 2000-01 “An Adaptation of the Stencil to the Monotype Printing Process" 2001-02 “Stencil Monoprints: A Continued Investigation” PRINTS PUBLISHED BY: 1983-84 Peregrine Press, Inc., Dallas, Texas 1985 Winn Press, Seattle, Washington University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 1986 University of Dallas , Matrix Program, Irving, Texas 1987 Clarion University, Sandford Gallery, Clarion, Pennsylvania 1990 University of Nevada, Las Vegas PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, Texas Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas University of Dallas, Irving, Texas University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma Los Angeles Print Society, Los Angeles, California New Mexico State University, Las Crues, New Mexico Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey Minot State University, North Dakota University of South Dakota, Vermilion. South Dakota East Tennessee Sta te University, Johnson City, Tennessee Clarion University, Clarion, Pennsylvania Prudential Insurance Company, Chicago, Illinois Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas Donna Beam Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Nevada NCNB, Dallas, Texas Illinois Bell Telephone Co., Chicago, Illinois Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., Dallas, Texas AMOCO Corporation, Chicago, Illinois Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas Arizona State University, Nelson Art Center, Phoenix, Arizona Equitable Life Insurance Co., Chicago, Illinois Hill Country Arts Foundation, Duncan and McAshan, Visual Arts Center, Ingram, Texas Kemper Corporation, Chicago, Illinois American Library Association, Chicago, Illinois State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Linekona Art Center, Honolulu, Hawaii General Motors, Detroit, Michigan Fort Hayes State University, Hayes, Kansas Marcus Communications, Dallas, Texas Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas Waco Art Center Tarlton State University, Stephenville, Texas N.B.D. Bank, Flint, Michigan The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey The University of Texas at Tyler Lincoln National Corporation, Fort Wayne, Indiana Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 28 Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas The University of Texas at Austin, J.S. Blanton Museum of Art The Southern Graphics Council Archives The Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Concordia University, Austin, Texas