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Visual Technicians is the art of Jeff Boyes. 2019 marks the 16th Anniversary of Visual Technicians as an outlet for the creative endeavours of Jeff. He has strived to refine his style over these 16 years. As a student of lino-cut prints and screen printing, he has slowly developed an illustration style that shows those influences. His prints have a lot of similar line-work to lino-cut prints but with the bright bold colors of a screen print. In the past 10 years he has worked with Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles on a regular basis, as well as Spoke Art in San Francisco and Ayden Gallery in Vancouver. He has worked on projects for the T.V. shows Lost, Breaking Bad, and Modern Family. In 2013 he worked with Gallery 1988 and The Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences on a "Lincoln" screen print for The Oscars. He has also worked with Sony on special edition Blu-Ray covers for Leon:The Professional, Drive, The Equalizer, and The Equalizer II. In 2015 he was involved in Star Wars: Force for Change, where he created a screen print for charity. In the graphic design world his clients and collaboratorsSpoke Art is San Francisco’s newest art gallery and publishing house. Following a year of pop up exhibits in New York City, San Francisco and Oakland, we have finally settled down into our new permanent space on Sutter Street in San Francisco’s dynamic Lower Nob Hill neighborhood. We specialize in emerging new contemporary artists with a firm emphasis on figurative and illustrative works. Our regular exhibits open the first Thursday of every month, and we specialize in connecting collectors with secondary market works namely in the fields of pop surrealism, low brow and street art.Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph.