Disco Days presents a brand-new series of monoprints by Hamilton-based artist Nathan Eugene Carson. Produced during his time as a printmaker-in-residence with Smokestack’s Analog Print Residency, this extensive body of prints (his largest in number created to date) translates the expressive gestures, bold forms, and vivid colours characteristic of Nathan’s multi-media practice into printmaking form. 

Through his Analog Print Residency, an emphasis on experimentation and play became a defining characteristic of the collaborative printmaking approach embraced by Nathan and Smokestack’s Master Printmaker, Laine Groeneweg. Their cooperative engagement of a monoprint process involved the intuitive use of off-cut pieces of paper, miscellaneous material scraps and brightly coloured inks to create a vast range of one-of-a-kind prints grounded in portraiture. With the enthusiasm that Nathan and Laine brought to their printmaking collaboration, days spent together in the studio become known as “Disco Days”.

Nathan Eugene Carson (b. 1980) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ontario College of Art and Design. His drawings and paintings have been featured in several solo and group exhibitions across Ontario including presentations at Verso, Gallery One, and The Drake Hotel, Toronto; Free Fall (2016) and Worked Over (2017), both at Oswald Gallery, Hamilton; 100 Paintings (2019) at The Carnegie Gallery, Dundas; and Pansies (2021) at Paul Elia Gallery, Hamilton to name a select few. Carson’s recent travelling solo exhibition, Cut From The Same Cloth (2020-2021), was presented at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and the Meridian Arts Centre, Toronto. He is currently the RBC Artist-In-Residence at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.