Something Unexpected, a series of Polymer Photogravures by Deborah Riley is on display at StoneMetal Press. Founded by Le Green and Kathleen Baker Pittman, StoneMetal Press is San Antonio’s oldest and most significant, artist-driven Printmaking Center.

Deborah Riley utilizes both the principles of darkroom photography and the processes of printmaking. Her prints resemble mezzotints in the delicate balance of value and tone. Riley manipulates the surface of the plates to reconstruct established images in an extraordinary fashion. Her art is so rich in its tonal range the blacks are dense and appear to have a velvet finish while the whites of the paper contrast beautifully with the perfect exposure ranges Deborah achieves.

Title board for the Deborah Riley exhibit at StoneMetal Press.

Partial view of Deborah Riley’s Something Unexpected exhibit at StoneMetal Press.

Partial view of Deborah Riley’s exhibit at StoneMetal Press.

Detail view of Deborah Riley’s Polymer Photogravures at StoneMetal Press.

Rose Arriaga, Terry Ybañez, Ann Kinser, and Philipp and Aurora Scholz Rittermann at the opening reception for Deborah Riley’s Something Unexpected exhibit at StoneMetal Press.