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INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK
NEW PRINT 2009/WINTER EXHIBTION
Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago and the Southern Graphics Council Conference ’09 is proud to present the International Print Center New York’s New Prints 2009/Winter at 1006 S. Michigan Avenue from March 6 to March 30, 2009. The show consists of fifty-four works by forty-eight emerging to established artists. A Southern Graphics Conference Reception will be held at 1006 S. Michigan on Friday, March 27 at 6pm – 9pm and is free and open to the public and conference attendees.
The Selections Committee for New Prints 2009/Winter included Matthew Day Jackson, Artist; Jacob Lewis, Director, Pace Prints Chelsea; Barbara Sahlman, Collector and Artist; Julie Saul, Director, Julie Saul Gallery; James Stroud, Master Printer and Director, Center Street Studio; and Roberta Waddell, former Curator of Prints (1985-2008), New York Public Library.
New Prints 2009/Winter is the thirtieth presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY four times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. The exhibition represents a cross-section of some of the most exceptional printmaking today, while continuing IPCNY’s commitment to provide an ongoing exhibition venue for contemporary prints and a major source of information about artists working in the medium.
The complete artists’ list for New Prints 2009/Winter is as follows: Romeo Alaeff, Desirée Alvarez, Michael Barnes, Anders Bergstrom, Laura Beyer, Marcin Bialas, Rolando Briseño, Eric Cain, Nathan Catlin, Jean Cencig, César Chávez, Willie Cole, Michael Dal Cerro, Aurora De Armendi, Richard Dupont, James Ehlers, Cecilia Enberg, Eduardo Fausti, Fred Hagstrom, Takuji Hamanaka, Anita S. Hunt, Alysia Kaplan, Colleen Kinsella, Pelagia Kyriazi, Karen Lederer, Beauvais Lyons, Franco Marinai, Robert Mueller, James Mustin III, Michele Oka Doner, Lothar Osterburg, Ardan Özmenoglu, Chris Papa, Ellen Price, Ross Racine, Jenny Robinson, Richard Ryan, Jean Shin, William H. Skerritt, Hills Snyder, Shino Soma, Buzz Spector, Barbara Takenaga, Tomas Vu, Carol Wax, Mark Wilson, Tammy Wofsey.
Highlights of the exhibition include: Richard Dupont’s Core, a monolithic etching with aquatint of a human profile; Michele Oka Doner’s untitled relief on handmade paper depicting a network of dark branches loosely rendering a single figure’s circulatory system; Lothar Osterburg’s Congested Planet, a four-plate color photogravure of a model of the earth encircled with highways and bright hot-wheels; and Barbara Takenaga’s Wheel (Zozma), a highly stylized vortex of pearl-like forms crafted on cotton and abaca base sheet with stenciled pulp and acrylic paint. Three artists’ books are included in the exhibition, along with a portfolio of lithographs by Anders Bergstrom, a suite of etchings by William H. Skerritt that read as a treatise on pavement friction, and a three-dimensional, text-based piece fabricated with thread by Buzz Spector.
A curatorial essay by Matthew Day Jackson will accompany the exhibition.
Thirty of the fifty-four works in New Prints 2009/Winter are by independent artists.
The New Prints Program is the core of IPCNY’s exhibition programming. New Prints 2000 launched the program in September 2000. To date, these thirty exhibitions have included work from over 900 artists and 200 presses across the country and abroad.
International Print Center New York is a non-profit institution founded to promote the greater appreciation and understanding of the fine art print worldwide. Through innovative programming, it fosters a climate for the enjoyment, examination and serious study of artists' prints – from the old master to the contemporary. IPCNY offers its members a program of workshop and gallery visits, and has established an informational website and Information Desk available to the public at the gallery. IPCNY depends upon public and private donations to support its programs.
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Image credits: Barbara Takenaga, Wheel (Zozma), 2008, Cotton and abaca base sheet, stenciled pulp paint and acrylic. Edition: 20. 20 x 16 ½ inches. Printed by the artist;
Published by Dieu Donné. Image courtesy of Dieu Donné.
FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS DURING THE SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL CONFERENCE ’09: www.colum.edu/sgc.
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AT 1006 S. MICHIGAN AVENUE FOR THE SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL CONFERENCE ‘09
Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books
Location: Columbia College Exhibition Space, 1006 S. Michigan Ave.
Dates: March 6 - 28
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 5 pm
Reception: March 27, 6 - 9 pm
Organizers: Hui-Chu Ying and Alicia Candiani
Artworks of monumental physical scale are overwhelming. The diminutive viewer is confronted and consumed by the gigantic. Presented with the miniature, the viewer, no longer assigned to the passive role, might instead devour the work, taking it into his or her soul. The miniature invites the viewer into a personal and intimate relationship. With attention drawn to the significance of the seemingly insignificant, the momentousness of the miniscule is magnified thus instilling monumental value. This curated exhibition will investigate the power of small-scale artists' books to challenge their readers with grand, powerful, urgent, and poignant content.
Contemporary Prints from Australia
Location: Columbia College Exhibition Space, 1006 S. Michigan Ave.
Dates: March 6 - April 2
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 5 pm
Reception: March 27, 6 - 9 pm
Organizers: Fred Hagstrom and Ron McBurnie
An exhibit of work by eleven of Australia’s best print artists including Martin King, Rosalind Atkins, Ron McBurnie, Euan Macleod, Graham Fransella, Jonathan Tse, Juli Haas, G.W. Bot (Chrissy Grishin), Judy Watson, Mike Schlitz and Reu Hanks. This high-quality work is rarely seen in this country, and emerges from an active printmaking scene largely unknown to the American audience.
reSESSION
Location: Columbia College Exhibition Space, 1006 S. Michigan Ave.
Dates: March 6 - April 2
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 5 pm
Reception: March 27, 6 - 9 pm
Organizer: Alan Butella
Link: http://www.charactersk8boards.com
reSESSION showcases skateboard decks designed by artists using printmaking processes in the creation of their boards, such as silkscreen and relief printing, transfer processes, and stencil processes in addition to hand-applied marks.
Character Skateboards and the 2009 SGC Conference Exhibitions Coordinator selected the participants for this invitational exhibition. Soma Fuller of Focus Magazine says “Character Skateboards is a company built on the premise of honesty, integrity, hard work, strong boards and strong skaters.”
ABOUT SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL:
Founded in 1973, The Southern Graphics Council is a nonprofit membership organization that advances the professional standing of artists who make original prints, drawings, books, and hand-made paper. The Council strives to increase public appreciation of these arts through an annual conference that draws participants from across the nation and increasingly on an international level. This conference promotes and encourages significant dialogue and exchange of technical and critical information in the fine printmaking community. Awards, publications and exhibitions sponsored by the Council promote greater understanding, scholarship and enjoyment of these art forms. Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago is proud to be the host of this year’s conference. Website: www.colum.edu/sgc.