This is the last week of my show before it comes down, its been a blast to be able to put it together and see all these ideas play out in a gallery space.
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
Author: caincong
I was born in San Leandro, CA and grew up in Modesto, CA. After studying art at the Modesto Junior College, I moved to Brisbane, AUS where I attended Queensland College of Art and in 2009 graduated with a BFA in Printmaking. While studying I had a chance to work with major galleries showing work, installing art, and opening exhibitions. Upon my return to the states in 2010, I became active in the local art scene in the central valley showing work in Fresno, Merced, Modesto, and Sacramento. I took a board position with the Modesto Art Museum in 2010 and later served as the Executive Director of the Museum in 2015. In 2013 I became the Instructional Support Technician for the Art Department at Stanislaus State. Currently, I make films and podcasts with a local production company, The Horrific Network and work with local government and art organizations promoting the importance of art in communities throughout the central valley. My work is about the eternal search to find connections between people, defining what it means to have and share an identity. Obsessed with storytelling I use references from cartoons, comic books, horror movies and television from shared childhood experiences to explore identity, reality, and emotion connecting the viewer to my work through nostalgia.
Resin casting larger scale
So this is my progress so far, got the mixture right on the second one in a lager scale. Found that a 1 to 25 ratio on the hardner to the resin works great and the 2.5 to 25 caused way to much heat causing fractures, but overall super happy with results and have started [...]
3D Resin casting
Been working on mold making and casting polyurethane resin, and suspending comic book pages in them, had a few set backs but on a small scale here is my findings so far up next is my full scale trial
Newish works
playing with digital and screen printing this is what I came up with
Poly plate print
My first poly plate lets see how it goes.
latest experiment
here is the most recent print i have from my toner experiments, it looks like the detail is much better than froim my previous prints. all the washes came out and even the thicker parts have a layered texture which embossed the paper and also came out on top of the paper giving it an [...]
toner litho transfer
been working on putting this technique to use recently and am really enjoying the results. It started with reuse of old plates to reduce cost for students, and has come full circle to using pronto plates to teach students the basic in lithography, and get good results. these are some of my experiments.
