Special Projects

Deep Dive Art Projects works directly with artists and galleries to develop print-based fine art. Bellamy Printz can assist in developing individual prints or larger scope printmaking ventures based on the artist’s proficiency and facility capacity. Experienced printmaking artists are encouraged to rent the studio to print and experiment with their own projects. 

Michelle Grabner

Michelle Grabner conceived and printed two prints with Deep Dive Art Editions in conjunction with her exhibition of paintings at Abattoir Gallery. The pair of soft-ground etchings were created from a matrix of burlap fabric and explore the density and characteristics of this humble utilitarian fabric which also factored into the creation of Grabner’s paintings rendered in monochrome whites, grey and almond. 

In describing the context for her recent paintings, Grabner invokes the tale of Penelope waiting for Odysseus’ return. She marks time passing while weaving at her loom, only to unravel the day’s work each night. So Grabner picks apart the warp or weft of a selected fabric for the paintings, which are based on the de-weaving of a primary textile-- either soft thermal hospital blankets or burlap. When overlaid on the prepared linen surface, these deconstructed textiles establish a guided imprint for the painter’s work. In this work, the artist forces attention upon the specificities of the surface, the hand and the quiet presence of women’s making, so central to her artistic identity.

Grabner is a Wisconsin-based artist, writer, and curator. Her practice incorporates different types of media including drawing, painting, and sculpture. Grabner co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and served as the inaugural artistic director of FRONT International, a triennial exhibition in Cleveland. Her work is included in the permanent collection of museums around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Dallas Museum of Art, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She served for eight years as Senior Chair of the Department of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is the founder and co-director of two non-profit art spaces in Wisconsin, The Suburban and The Poor Farm, with her husband, artist Brad Killam. 

Alexandria Couch

Alexandria Couch is a painter and printmaker whose work explores themes of memory, self-determination, and materiality, often showcasing figures in states of flux. Her work uses both traditional and found materials to show states of discord between subjects and their surroundings. She often incorporates painting on fabric, which she tears and re-quilts together. The resulting images are an abstraction that mimic the reformation of marginal identities adapting to destabilized environments.  

Based between New Haven, CT, New York, and Ohio, Couch has exhibited nationally in institutions such as the James Cohan Gallery, New York; SoLA Contemporary, Los Angeles; New Image Art, Los Angeles; Akron Art Museum, Akron, and as part of the 2022 FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art.

Couch was born and raised in Akron, Ohio and graduated with her BFA in 2020 from Myers School of Art at the University of Akron. She received her MFA in 2023 from the Yale School of Art. Couch is also a 2023 NXTHVN Studio Fellow and former resident at the Royal Drawing School’s Dumfries House in Scotland. 

Dexter Davis

Cleveland native Dexter Davis has been working at Deep Dive since 2024 developing a suite of variation prints that will be presented as a portfolio. The project, commissioned by William Busta, will be exhibited as part of Davis’ retrospective at William Busta Projects in December, 2026.