Silkscreen is Easy

Silkscreen Is Easy by The Little Friends of Printmaking includes a foreword by JW Buchanan, an interview with Chris Jalufka and an afterword by John Foster. Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Little Friends of Printmaking: Silkscreen Is Easy at General Projects from June 26 to August 22, 2021. Portions of the interview with Chris Jalufka were first published on eviltender.com and are reprinted here with permission. Additional photography by Linnea Bullion, Pat Castaldo, Yannick Grandmont, and Eric Nakamura.

"HEY! DID YOU KNOW: "Silkscreen is Easy!" Or, anyway, that's its reputation among snooty printmaker types (sorry to snooty printmaker types) who've never picked up a squeegee in their life. REAL HEADS KNOW that silkscreen is complicated and physically grueling. Anything and everything can go wrong; you're walking a knife's edge; your back is killing you, and-Whoops, now the ink is dry! Time to wash out or print off endlessly. Silkscreen is hell, and yet I love it and it's also better than anything else and please don't ask me to reconcile these disparate facts."--JW Buchanan