Bill Fick is a printmaker living and working in

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. Fick is the director of Cockeyed Press, which specializes in the production of satirical linocut prints and

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production. He is also a member of the Outlaw Printmakers. Fick, along with Beth Grabowski authored a book, ''Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials & Processes''Grabowski, Beth. ''Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials & Processes'', . in 2009.

Biography

Fick was born on October 19, 1963, in Lirik,

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, Indonesia. His family moved to the United States when he was young and he received his

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from

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in 1986 and his M.F.A. from

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in 1990.

Artist and educator

Fick is the Lecturing Fellow of Art at

. He has exhibited in several solo and group shows nationally and internationally including the Czech Republic, New Zealand, and Finland. In addition, throughout his career, Fick has acted as a visiting artist, artist in residence, and professor to several art schools across the country. Fick's work can be found in the collections of the

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; The

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, New York City; and the Zimmerli Art Museum,

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. In 1993 Fick was awarded a

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Visual Artist Fellowship and in 1995 a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship. Fick is associated with a movement within contemporary American printmaking known as "Outlaw Printmaking",a group that includes

Tom Huck Tom Huck, a.k.a. Hück or Tom Hück (born 1971), is an American artist best known for his large-scale satirical imagery that lampoons contemporary rural Midwestern culture. His technique and style has been distilled through study and response to c ...

Richard Mock Richard Mock (1944 – July 28, 2006) was a printmaker, painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. Mock was best known for his linocut illustrations that appeared on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times from 1980 through 1996. Born in 1944 in ...

, Dennis Mcnett,

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, Michael Barnes, and Cannonball Press.

External links

* www.cockeyedpress.com (artist's web site)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fick, Bill Living people American printmakers Modern printmakers American illustrators Duke University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Linocut artists