Archive Drop 002 - Glowing Disk (Early Print Studio) 08/27/25 Draft
Edition: 10 + Proofs
Medium: Screen print on white artist studio paper; subject to minor variation, fingerprints, pinholes, and slight creases - each work reflects the artist's studio practice.
Size: 11 x 22 inches (sheet size) / 10 x 21 inches (image size)
Price: $222 (shipping included, U.S. only)
Description (Joe Ellis intro)
So the story goes, the early print studio ran from 2013-2016 in the old Acrylic Factory in Northeast Minneapolis. I never had the chance to visit, but looking at the body of work produced there, and at my friend, this is what I see:
Shock is never one-dimensional. The artist is fighting an invisible war few can name but all can feel - a war of language itself. Liberation of the letter. Reclamation of meaning. Ancient, instinctual.
Each print carried double meanings, figurative or literal, a critique wrapped in familiarity. This is not new. Radical presses have always existed. What’s significant is that by 2013, Shock had already forged a studio practice that felt inevitable — not in a single breakthrough, but a lived rhythm where painting, print, and life blurred together into one continuous gesture. For him, screen printing carries the same immediacy as graffiti or painting in the studio: ink mixed, screen flooded, image pulled.
A gesture made permanent.
The process before is the process now.
Glowing Disk (2013)
[Alex's print shop and Glowing Disk story here.]
This is Archive Drop 002.
Glowing Disk is offered first, here, privately.
Edition of 10 signed prints + proofs.
For this drop: 6 signed impressions available - 4 via Joe Ellis Art, 2 via MNVICE on 09/10/25.
$222 each.
Available now exclusively through Joe Ellis Art before the public drop.
