Flooding Factory
Run by the team of Dan Estep and Jessica Rosenbaum, the collaborationists behind the Flooding Factory press, they manage to distinguish their work by enlarging on tattoo designs in blown-up prints that take full advantage of garish, Paschke-esque coloring and dark, graphic linework. While these oft-visionary works are their stock in trade, they also print a line of t-shirts and a series of small prints that highlight the incursions of nature into the city that recalls early Tony Fitzpatrick. The duo has managed to launch a press more squarely in the Chicago tradition than any in recent memory.
Best of Chicago 2014