I usually visit Santa Barbara, California two or three times a year to attend meetings and practices at Shotokan Ohshima Dojo. This year David Altman, one of my closest friends, and I traveled together to Santa Barbara for a special practice for our rank.
One of the most personally interesting artists profiled in Paul Catanese and Angela Geary’s Post-Digital Printmaking is Jean-Pierre Hébert who lives in Santa Barbara. I contacted Jean-Pierre before our visit to meet him and learn more about his work. I was a little disappointed that Jean-Pierre pointedly avoided talking about his algorithmic approach to image making but I was thrilled to meet and spend time with him! Jean-Pierre showed us hundreds of his gorgeous ink-jet prints, etchings, dry points, and plotter drawings. It was great to meet him (thanks for writing the book, Paul)!
David Altman, Jean-Pierre Hébert, Mike Lyon
Jean-Pierre Hébert retrieves endless prints and drawings from flat file
Jean-Pierre Hébert, "ah agnes thirty one is prime", 1996, pen and ink, 5 x 4 inches
Jean-Pierre Hébert, "fractone", 2007, graphite, lead, and brown chalk, 13 x 17 inches
Jean-Pierre Hébert, Mike Lyon
Jean-Pierre Hébert, Mike Lyon
Jean-Pierre Hébert receives 2012 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art from ACM SIGGRAPH (Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques)