New Book Features the Art of Levitation

Fountain, a digital giclée image created by artist Carol Pentleton as part of her Levitation" series, is featured in a new book, Mastering the Art of Digital Printing, by Harald Johnson. Published by Muska & Lipman, the book will go on sale on December 1, 2002.

Fountain, a digital giclée image created by artist Carol Pentleton as part of her Levitation" series, is featured in a new book, Mastering the Art of Digital Printing, by Harald Johnson. Published by Muska & Lipman, the book will go on sale on December 1, 2002.

Levitation" was recently the focus of a solo exhibition at the Greenville Public Library in Smithfield, Rhode Island. There are twelve images in the Levitation series; each printed in a very limited edition of 20 giclée prints. The image size of each print is 24"x37". The medium of digital art allows the artist to use color to produce three-dimensional effects, complex textures, and an ethereal light that permeates the images. Dream-like forms appear to hover in the shimmering glow of a sunrise, an exploding supernova, the aurora borealis, or the creation of the universe. Shapes, colors, and light reverberate in a harmonic equilibrium that suggests simultaneous stillness and movement. The images evoke levitation, gravitational attraction, bubbles in space-time, magnetic fields, portals, hidden passages, or deserted places waiting for an event.

Mastering Digital Printing is the first complete reference to the new world of digital printing for photography and fine art. This authoritative book provides a thorough introduction to this exploding medium, instruction in the latest digital printing techniques, and an inspiring Gallery Showcase of the best of digitally imaged and printed art and photography. Part overview and part how-to, "Mastering Digital Printing: The Photographer's and Artist's Guide to High-Quality Digital Output" not only delineates a complete, step-by-step workflow for making a great inkjet print, but also covers the pluses and minuses of using the print technologies of digital photoprint and photo process, dye sublimation, and electrophotography.

Images by Carol Pentleton have been exhibited in group and solo shows in galleries, museums and other venues across the United States, including the Left Bank Gallery in Bennington, Vermont, Oculus Gallery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, The Westport Art Center in Westport, Massachusetts, and the Warwick Arts Museum in Warwick, Rhode Island. Her work has also been seen in American Humanist, Lear's, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Miami Herald, Rhode Island Monthly, and the Boston Globe.

Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Ms Pentleton received her early training in painting from marine artist Louis Sylvia. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA, and later received an MFA from Syracuse University.

Author Harald Johnson has been immersed in the world of commercial and fine-art imaging and printing for more than 25 years. As a consultant and the head of his own marketing communications agency, he has worked with many blue-chip artists as well as galleries and museums throughout the United States. Johnson, who was introduced to digital imaging workflows in 1988, is the creator and moderator of Yahoo's "digital-fineart," the world's largest online discussion group on the subject of digital fine art and digital printing.

The complete series may also be viewed by accessing the artists Internet site at http://www.thenewplace.com.

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