Insight Sunday With Dan Rizzie

Artist Dan Rizzie’s first and “sacred” word to describe printmaking is “collaboration.” Join The Church at the next Insight Sunday event on February 25 at 10:30 a.m., the final day of the exhibition “Master Impressions,” where Rizzie, a formidable artist and East End printmaker, discusses the beauty of the collaborative process between artist, printer and the press. Guests will be able to view some of Rizzie’s prints and artist books and gain an in-depth look at his practice.

Fascinated by the fact that something as simple as ink on linoleum could produce beautiful art and entranced by the endless possibilities that printmaking as a medium offers, Rizzie found himself drawn to the medium with ample curiosity and zeal. Reflecting on his 40 years of being an artist, he realizes that most of his work is prints. A Q&A will follow the discussion.

Dan Rizzie is a painter, printmaker and collage artist, who has lived and worked for many years in Sag Harbor. Through a love of concern for materials, color, form, and especially the walls and structure of urban environments, he has arrived at a set of symbols based on simple color, rectilinear form and surface. These symbols serve to mark periods of heightened awareness and to document his feelings while remaining within formal established conventions. By the arrangement of these symbols/forms he achieves a composition that is asymmetrical and balanced. The end results are objects of contemplation; works that provide the viewer access to his feelings.

Insight Sundays, held the last Sunday of each month at The Church, provide artists with the opportunity to talk in-depth about their processes, techniques, and concepts in the presence of their work. Rizzie’s work is included in the winter exhibition, “Master Impressions: Artists and Printers on the South Fork (1965-2010),” which is on view through February 25.

Tickets to Insight Sunday are $10 (free for members) at thechurchsagharbor.org. The Church is at 48 Madison Street in Sag Harbor.