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Up-to-date information about IPCNY and what we are doing to bring
the world of prints to you.
 

April 2008: For immediate release: IPCNY present New Prints Spring 2008, selected by Jane Hammond.This exhibition will be on view at IPCNY May 1 - June 7, 2008. A variation of the show is traveling uptown to the New York School of Interior Design from June 17 - July 24, 2008.


March 2008: IPCNY announces its next New Prints Call for Entries--DEADLINE APRIL 21st. IPCNY requests submissions for The Artist's Commentary: New Prints Summer 2008.
February 2008: For immediate release: IPCNY presents Propagating Eden:
Uses and Techniques of Nature Printing in Botany and Art
. This exhibition will be on view at IPCNY March 6- April 19, 2008. Please click here for more information.

January -February 2008: NEW PRINTS: Autumn 2008 travels to Columbia College, Chicago! The exhibition will be on display at: C33 Gallery and Hokin Annex. For more information, please visit www.colum.edu/anchorgraphics

January, 2008: IPCNY Announces a call for submissions for NEW PRINTS: Spring 2008, Selected by Jane Hammond.

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December, 2007: For Immediate Release: IPCNY Announces NEW PRINTS: Winter 2008, on view from January 10- February 23, 2008.


Rachel Burgess

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November 13, 2007: IPCNY announces the Selections Committee for New Prints 2008 Winter: Gregory Amenoff, artist and Chair of Visual Arts at Columbia University School of the Arts; Ruth Bowman, arts educator and collector; Bill Hall, Master Printer, Pace Prints; Susan Inglett, Susan Inglett Gallery/I.C. Editions; Brett Littman, Executive Director, The Drawing Center; Dona Warner, Executive Director, Dieu Donne Papermill.

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October 4, 2007: New Prints Autumn 2007 Artists have been selected. IPCNY's New Prints Selections Committee met last week to make selections for IPCNY's 25th New Prints exhibitions. By the September 4th deadline, IPCNY had received a record-breaking 2,000 submissions. Out of this pool, 52 works by 41 artists.

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September 2007: IPCNY Announces Working with Prints: Selections from Eight Corporate Collections. On view from September 8th- October 20th, 2007

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June 28, 2007: IPCNY is Pleased to present


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May 24, 2007: IPCNY is pleased to announce that our first Benefit, honoring Ellsworth Kelly, Deborah Wye, and Leslie and Johanna Garfield was a huge success! We are grateful to all of the individuals who contributed to the evening.


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May 2, 2007: IPCNY is pleased to present Pop Prints from the Collection of John and Kimiko Powers


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February 2007: Press Release: IPCNY announces New Prints 2007/Spring: Selected by James Siena


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January 2007: IPCNY announces artist James Siena as juror for New Prints 2007/Spring.


January, 2007: IPCNY presents New Prints 2007/Winter


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December 8, 2006: IPCNY Announces a call for entries for New Prints 2007/Spring, DEADLINE JANUARY 8th, 2007. Click here for more info.

November 6, 2006: New Prints 2007/Winter artists have been selected!
The following artists will be included in New Prints 2007/Winter, opening on January 11th, 2007:

Ghada Amer, Polly Apfelbaum, Elisabeth Blomster, Klaus Burgel, Nicholas Brown, Enriqué Chagoya, Nicolas Conbere, Robert Creighton, Kota Ezawa, Carl Fudge, Klara Glosova, Joanne Greenbaum, Talia Greene, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Mona Hatoum, Daniel Heyman, John Himmelfarb, Yuji Hiratsuka, Meejin Hong, Anita S. Hunt, John Jacobsmeyer, Maho Kino, Karen Kunc, Max Liboiron, Valerie McEvoy, Linn Meyers, Heidi Neilson, Lothar Osterburg, Robert T. Pannell, Serena Perrone, Ross Racine, Danielle Rante, Barbara Robertson, Carrie Scanga, Dasha Shishkin, William Skerritt, Kiki Smith, Hester Stinnett, Mary Temple.

The New Prints 2007/Winter Selections Committee was Amy Cutler, artist; Luther Davis, Master Printer, Axelle Fine Arts; Paul Laster, Editor, ArtKrush; Mary Ellen Oldenburg, art historian and collector; Robert Rainwater, Independant Curator; Mary Ryan, Director, Mary Ryan Gallery


Ongoing: Prints Available from

New Prints 2000-2006:
A Benefit Exhibition

If you missed the opportunity to purchase a print during IPCNY's silent auction, the remaining prints are available for sale at IPCNY. This is a great chance to purchase top-quality artwork at affordable prices!

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Joan Snyder, Oasis, 2006, Digital print with silkscreen and hand addition. Edition: A.P. #6/20, Donated by the artist

November 2, 2006: Graphic Reality: Mexican Printmaking Today opens during New York Fine Art Print Week.


Joel Rendón, La Cucaracha, la cucaracha, 2002,
Woodcut, 36 x 27.5 inches

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October 11, 2006: Prints Now Catalogue available at IPCNY

IPCNY is pleased to announce that on the occasion of an authors' talk and reception at IPCNY, the new catalogue, Prints Now, by Rosie Miles and Gill Saunders, Curators at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, is available for purchase.

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September 2006: IPCNY opens the Fall Season with New Prints 2000- 2006: A Benefit Exhibition, September 21 - October 18, 2006.


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August 14, 2006: IPCNY Announces a call for entries for New Prints 2007/Winter. DEADLINE: September 25th. Please click here for more information.

August 2006: Check out IPCNY's new Directory of North American Print Workshops! Compiled by IPCNY to provide a comprehensive listing of printshops across the United States, this directory offers basic information on close to 100 printshops, such as whether they do publishing, contract printing, offer cooperative opportunities for artists or offer classes, as the media they specializes in and a description of on-site facilities.

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June 2006: New Prints 2006/Summer: COLOR, June 29th-August 4, 2006.




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May 4, 2006: IPCNY Announces New Prints 2006/Spring: Selected and Curated by Richard Tuttle



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March 9-June 15: Destination Chelsea: 13 Thursdays. As a member of the Chelsea Cultural Partnership, IPCNY is pleased to be a participant in Destination Chelsea, neighborhood-wide collaborative celebration that will span 13 Thursdays this Spring.The Chelsea Cultural Partnership is a collective of Chelsea non-profit visual and performing arts organizations united to build on Chelsea's cultural community.

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March 10-13, 2006: IPCNY Celebrates its 5th Anniversary of services to artists, collectors and the print community, with its first year as a presenter at The Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art. Visit us on Pier 90, Booth MOO4. For more information on the Armory Show, visit www.thearmoryshow.com


March 9, 2006: IPCNY announces the opening of New Editions/Scotland: Contemporary Artists' Prints from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee



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February 2006: IPCNY is pleased to announce a call for entries for
N
ew Prints 2006/Spring--Selected by Richard Tuttle.

The deadline for submissions is March 13.
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January 18-February 25: New Prints 2006/Winter


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January 12, 2006: New Prints 2005/Autumn opens in Chicago! New Prints 2005/Autumn is the first New Prints exhibition to travel to a second venue.It will be on view at Columbia College in Chicago from January 12 through February 18th, 2006. The exhibit will be on display in the A + D Gallery, which is affiliated with Columbia College's Department of Art and Design.

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2005/2006: IPCNY Celebrates its 5th Anniversary Season!


December 2005: New benefit print edition by Michael Mazur. Proceeds will benefit IPCNY's programs. IPCNY is grateful to Michael Mazur for the gift of this benefit edition in honor of our 5th Anniversary.

Serpentine with Orchids, 2005 is a 4-color screenprint on Rives BFK made in an edition of 50 plus 7 artist's proofs. It is 28 x 22 inches, signed and numbered by the artist.

$950

*a pre-publication discount of 10% applies if purchased before December 31st, 2005

 


IPCNY is pleased to announce two 5th Anniversary Exhibitions opening during New York City Print Week:




ORGANIZED BY
INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK

Presented by the AXA Gallery

From November 2, 2005 to January 28, 2006, the AXA Gallery will present a major exhibition of printed works organized by International Print Center New York (IPCNY). The exhibition features nearly 90 works by artists as diverse as William Blake, Vija Celmins, Albrecht Dürer, Max Ernst, M.C. Escher, Francisco Goya, Rockwell Kent, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, José Guadalupe Posada, and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. These works explore the role of printed images in shaping cultural ideas throughout history, and the influence of the surrounding culture on the creation of the images themselves.

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NEW PRINTS 2005/AUTUMN

From November 3 to December 22, 2005, International Print Center New York will present New Prints 2005/Autumn, consisting of forty-five prints by thirty-one artists selected from a pool of over twelve hundred works.

The complete artists' list is as follows: Kim Baranowski, Michael Barnes, Will Barnet, Jeanette Bokhour, Enriqué Chagoya , Phillip Chen, Russell Crotty, Rupert Deese, Mike Elko, Laurent Gagnon, Jackie Gendel, Lynne Harlow, Kent Henricksen, Cooper Holoweski, Louise Kohrman, Nancy Lasar, Julie Mehretu, Heidi Neilson, Kingsley Parker, Mark Pease, Paula Praeger, Andra Samelson, Lisa Sanditz, Jean Shin, Noriko Shinohara, James Siena, Gary Simmons, Buzz Spector, Carolyn Swiszcz, Phyllis Trout and Melinda Yale.

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November 17, 2005: IPCNY receives a $10,000 grant from the Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc. This generous grant will be used toward general operating funding.

November 3, 2005: IPCNY is grateful to receive a $9,500 grant from the Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Family Foundation to be used towards an educational program centered around the Imagined Worlds exhibition.

November 1, 2005: IPCNY announces the publication of its 5th Anniversary Exhibition catalogue: Imagined Worlds: Willful Invention and the Printed Image--1470-2005

August 1, 2005: IPCNY receives a grant in the generous amount of $20,000 from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation to be used toward organizational capacity building.

July 21, 2005: Press Release: Moscow Grafika: Artists' Prints 1961 - 2005, Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art.

This exhibition opens IPCNY's 5th Anniversary Season, and is on view from September 13th-October 22nd, 2005 at IPCNY.

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Vladimir Yankilevsky, King of Darkness, 1972, Etching with charcoal.

July 18, 2005: IPCNY is pleased to receive a $5,000 grant from the Arthur Ross Foundation towards the exhibition catalogue, Imagined Worlds: Willful invention and the Printed Image
July 1, 2005:IPCNY is pleased to announce that Industry and Idleness: Selections from the Print Collection of The Museum of the City of New York, first exhibited at IPCNY in March, 2005, opens at the Museum of the City of New York. Industry and Idleness was a collaborative effort between IPCNY and the Museum of the City of New York.

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June 29, 2005: IPCNY receives an unsolicited grant of $25,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to be used toward general operating support.
June 29, 2005: International Print Center New York welcomes summer '05 with New Prints 2005/Summer--ETCHINGS, the seventeenth presentation of its New Prints Program.

In a departure from our usual New Prints exhibitions which showcase examples of all mediums of printmaking, the submissions criteria and selections process for New Prints 2005/Summer were focused on a single medium-etching -more-


June 24, 2005: IPCNY receives a grant of $10,000 from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation toward the catalogue for the Imagined Worlds: Willful Invention and the Printed Image exhibition which will open at AXA Gallery in November, 2005
June, 2005: IPCNY is pleased to welcome Pari Stave, Director, AXA Gallery, as the newest member of our Board of Trustees

May 6, 2005: IPCNY announces the opening of New Prints 2005/Spring: Selected by Kiki Smith


May 6- June 15, 2005

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March 9 2005: IPCNY announces the opening of INDUSTRY & IDLENESS, Selections from the Print Collection of The Museum of the City of New York


Images of New Yorkers at work and at play, 1880s-1980s

Curated by Nika Elder
March 9-April 23, 2005
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January 31-March 25: Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop,which was originally exhibited at IPCNY in November, 2002, and then traveled on to the Library of Congress in February 2003, will be on exhibit at Columbia College Chicago's Glass Curtain Gallery. This is a Library of Congress Exhibition realized in Collaboration with International Print Center New York and the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts. For more information please visit http://cspaces.colum.edu, or call 312-344-6650


January 15, 2005:IPCNY is pleased to announce that Kiki Smith will make the selection of works for New Prints 2005/Spring. In a variation from our usual six-member Selections Committee structure, IPCNY has for the first time invited an individual artist who has contributed significantly to the cultivation of printmaking, to make the selections for this round. We are pleased to announce that renowned New York artist, Kiki Smith, has agreed to make the selections for this show. -more-

January 13, 2005:

International Print Center New York enters 2005 with the presentation of New Prints 2005/Winter. The Selections Committee for this exhibition was made up of the following individuals: Mark Baron, Baron/Boisanté Editions; Dan Cameron, Senior Curator, The New Museum of Contemporary Art; Agnes Gund, collector and President Emerita, the Museum of Modern Art; Jane Hammond, artist; Randy Hemminghaus, Master Printer, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper; and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Consulting Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. -click here for more info-

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November 24, 2004: PRINT SALE TO BENEFIT IPCNY - we have finally begun posting our inventory on our website!

IPCNY is a non-profit organization, and does not sell the works on display in its exhibitions, however we do have an inventory of prints for sale that have been donated to us by artists, publishers, dealers and collectors who wish that the proceeds be used to benefit IPCNY's programs. Among these works, we are proud to say, are many by artists who have been on display at IPCNY (including Honoré Daumier!)

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November 5 , 2004: NEW PRINTS 2004/AUTUMN


Tom Friedman, Untitled, 2004, Relief print, 19 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches
Published by Island Press, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO

International Print Center New York presents NEW PRINTS 2004/AUTUMN
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September 17-October 23, 2004:


¡Impresionante!:
Innovative Prints by Contemporary Puerto Rican Artists

Guest Curated by Deborah Cullen and Harper Montgomery


October 16, 2004:

IPCNY participates in Fall for Chelsea: A One-Day Festival of Arts, Culture and Entertainment
October 16 (Sat) 11am-11pm
Join Chelsea's arts organizations, galleries, shops and restaurants to celebrate the rich cultural landscape of the neighborhood. The day features special events, discounts for performance tickets and local restaurants and shops. Call 212-691-6500 x 259 or visit www.fallforchelsea.com.

Fall for Chelsea is produced by the Chelsea Cultural Partnership, including Atlantic Theater Company, Chelsea Art Museum, Dance Theater Workshop, Electronic Arts Intermix, Eyebeam, The High Line, International Print Center New York, Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Rubin Museum of Art, and TADA.


June 23, 2004:


International Print Center New York announces the thirteenth presentation of its New Prints Program from June 24th through July 30th...With New Prints 2004/Summer. The Selections Committee was comprised of : Barbara Foshay-Miller, President, Site Santa Fe; Peter Nesbett, Editor, Art on Paper magazine and Co-Director of Triple Candie, a non-profit contemporary art space in Harlem, NYC; Andrew Raftery, artist and Printmaking Department Head, Rhode Island School of Design; Susan Sollins, Producer, Art 21; Sarah Thompson, book artist and Public Affairs Associate, Dia Center for the Arts, and Diane Villani, Publisher, Diane Villani Editions.
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images: Melodie Provenzano, Kitty & Buck, 2004, Lithograph and embossing, 15 x 17 inches, Published by Goya-Girl Press, MD; Keiko Kamata, Phantasmagoria I, 2003, Screenprint, 9 x 9 inches


June 2, 2004: IPCNY is pleased to welcome Barbara Stern Shapiro, Consulting Curator to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, as the newest member of our Board of Trustees.

 

May 6, 2004: New Prints 2004/Spring: Selected by Barry Walker opens at IPCNY:


...IPCNY received approximately 1,000 submissions for New Prints 2004/Spring. From this submissions pool, Barry Walker, Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Curator of 20th Century Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, made the selections for the exhibition. Mr. Walker is well known to New York audiences as the curator of three National Print Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum in the 1980's.
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(1) Alma Lopez, La Llorona Desperately Seeking Coyolxauhqui, 2003, Serigraph, 22 x 16 inches, Published by Coronado Studio; (2) James Siena, Upside Down Devil Variation, 2004, Engraving, 26 5/8 x 22 1/4 inches, Published by Harlan & Weaver, Inc.; (3) Lisa Yuskavage, from Babie, 2004, Etching and aquatint with chine collé, 19 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches, Published by Marianne Boesky Gallery; (4) Imi Hwangbo,detail from Without Being, 2003, Handcut archival inkjet prints on Mylar, 64 x 25 x 3 inches.


April 16, 2004: IPCNY receives a grant of $6,000 from the International Fine Print Dealers Association for the planning of the exhibition and catalogue, Imagined Worlds: Willful Invention and the Printed Image, to open at AXA Gallery in November, 2005
March 29, 2004: The Selections are made for New Prints 2004/Spring, on exhibit from May 6-June 12, 2004. Selections were made by Barry Walker, Curator of 20th Century Art and Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. Mr. Walker chose forty-six works out of over 1000 submissions. Artists whose work will be included are:
Desirée Alvarez, Ida Applebroog, Christopher Armijo, Ellen Birkenblit, Shawn Bitters, Greg Bogin, Randy Bolton, Karin Bos, James Brown, Tom Brydelsky, Erin Cameron, Phillip Chen, Billy Copley, Marylyn Dintenfass, Brad Ewing, Steve Gibson, Bryan Nash Gill, Leamon Green, Talia Greene, Jonathan Higgins, Charles Christopher Hill, Imi Hwangbo, Sergei Isupov, Claude Kent, Louise Kohrman, Alma Lopez, Enid Mark, Kerry James Marshall, Deborah Gottheil Nehmad, Margaret Neill, Dean Nimmer, Alice Oh, Tomomi Ono, Jimmy Peña, Brian Pilliod, Sara Saltzman, James Siena, Alexis Smith, Kiki Smith, Monica Smith, Buzz Spector, Michelle Stuart, Jonathan Thomas, Yeachin Tsai, Marion Wilson and Lisa Yuskavage.

March 11, 2004: Trains, Balloons & Buggies: Lithographs by Honoré Daumier from The Armand Hammer Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum opens at IPCNY.


International Print Center New York announces an exhibition of prints by the nineteenth-century French caricaturist and master lithographer Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) through April 24th, 2004 in its Chelsea gallery at 526 West 26th Street. The prints are on loan from the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Trains, Balloons and Buggies has been guest curated for IPCNY by Carolyn Peter,Assistant Curator, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the UCLA Hammer Museum. In her words, Daumier's lithographs "offer humorous insight into how people…coped with the many trials and tribulations of travel in nineteenth-century France. The exhibition …also takes a look at some of the more whimsical types of transport found in Daumier's work."
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April 17, 2004: Open House: Working In Brooklyn to Showcase Borough's Leading Contemporary Artists includes ten artists whose work has been exhibited in IPCNY's New Prints Program. These artists are: Louise Bourgeois, 2000, 2001/Winter, 2001/Autumn, 2002/Summer, 2004/Winter; Diana Cooper, 2001/Winter, 2002/Summer;Amy Cutler, 2003/Autumn; E.V. Day, 2000; Jane Fine, 2001/Autumn;Marc Lepson, 2000, 2001/Winter, 2004/Summer; Roxy Paine, 2002/Summer; Dread Scott, 2001/Summer; David Shapiro, 2001/Autumn; Jean Shin, 2003/Summer

March 11, 2004: Whitney Biennial includes New Prints artists. IPCNY is pleased to announce that eleven artists who have participated in IPCNY's New Prints Program are included in this year's Whitney Biennial, on view from March 11-June 13, 2004 at The Whitney Museum of American Art. These artists are: Mel Bochner, New Prints 2000; Cecily Brown, New Prints 2003/Spring; Amy Cutler, New Prints 2003/Autumn; Robert Mangold, New Prints 2002/Summer; Cameron Martin, New Prints 2004/Winter; Dario Robleto, New Prints 2003/Autumn; James Siena, New Prints 2000, 2003/Autumn,2004/Spring; and Andrea Zittel, New Prints 2002/Summer

 

January 15, 2004: IPCNY opens the New Year with New Prints 2004/Winter: The Random and the Ordered


A.J. Bocchino, detail from NY Times Headlines (Feb. 1, 1993-July 28, 2003),
Digital print. Edition of 5, 39 x 84 inches

For New Prints 2004/Winter, the Selections Committee (which changes for each New Prints exhibition) was comprised of the following members: Starr Figura, Assistant Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art; Kimball Higgs, Gagosian Gallery; Jean-Paul Russell, Master Printer and Director, Durham Press; Carol Ann Schuster, collector; Mina Takahashi, Executive Director of Programs, Dieu Donne Papermill. Some eight hundred prints were submitted to IPCNY for this selections round for consideration by the jury. -more-


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December, 2003: IPCNY receives a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts: a two year grant of $50,000 for 2003 and 2004 has been given in support of IPCNY's New Prints Program

November 17, 2003: IPCNY is awarded $17,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts and $10,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts in support of its New Prints Program

November 4, 2003: IPCNY presents New Prints 2003/Autumn



Rosemarie Fiore, MTA Redbird Series (Middle Door Window #33 Train), 2003,
Drypoint and Collage, Edition of 12 variable, 37 x 50 inches
Published by Lower East Side Printshop

International Print Center New York announces the tenth presentation of its New Prints Program from Tuesday, November 4, 2003 through Tuesday, January 6, 2004 in its gallery at 526 West 26th Street, Room 824, in Chelsea. New Prints 2003/Autumn is one of a series of juried exhibitions organized four times each season by IPCNY presenting current prints by artists at all stages of their careers. -more-


 

November 1, 2003: IPCNY Announces the publication of its second benefit print,
Up River,
a color woodcut by Richard Bosman.


IPCNY is grateful to the artist and to the printer, SOLO Impression, for donating this beautiful print to benefit our exhibitions program. This seven-color woodcut on Sekishu white Japanese paper was printed in an edition of 100 signed and numbered by the artist. Measuring 23 1/2 by 17 inches, it is available through IPCNY. For more information, call the office at (212) 989-5090, or stop by the gallery to see it in person!
   
September 24, 2003: The Selections Committee for New Prints 2003/Autumn, met at IPCNY to select work for this upcoming New Prints show. Fifty-five works were selected out of over 900 submissions. The members of the Selections Committee were: Brooke Alexander, publisher; Dudley Del Balso, artists' representative and Trustee, IPCNY; Carin Kuoni, independent curator; Liliana Porter, artist and professor, Queens College, New York City; Suzanne Randolph, fine art advisor; and Joseph Ruzicka, head of the Association of Art Museum Curators, New York City.


 
    September/October 2003: Article on Traces and Traditions: Vietnamese Woodblock Prints is published in Art on Paper.


 
    September 10, 2003: California Abstract Expressionists: Prints from the Charles R. Dean Collection, Curated by Faye Hirsch

James Kelly, Deep Blue I, 1952,
color lithograph, 24 x 14 3/4 inches
 
 

 

International Print Center New York celebrates the beginning of its fall season with the opening reception of California Abstract Expressionists: Prints from the Charles R. Dean Collection. The reception was attended by artists, printers, publishers, collectors, friends and supporters of IPCNY. Brief talks were given by Faye Hirsch, the guest curator of the show, and Charles Randall Dean, the collector of this exceptional body of works by California printmakers in the 1940s and 50s.

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June, 2003: IPCNY welcomes two new members to its Advisory Council: Joseph Goddu and Melissa Parsoff.


 
 

 

April 3, 2003: Woodblock printmaking demonstration.  
    On Thursday April 3rd, 6-8 p.m., visiting Vietnamese artists Phan Cam Thuong and Le Quoc Viet, represented in IPCNY's exhibition, Traces and Traditions: Vietnamese Woodblock Prints, give a woodblock printmaking demonstration at IPCNY.  
 



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  November 26, 2002: IPCNY announces
Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop
 
 

from Wednesday, November 27th through Saturday, January 25th, 2003, in its Chelsea gallery at 526 West 26th Street. Creative Space is a Library of Congress exhibition realized in collaboration with International Print Center New York and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Following its presentation at IPCNY, the exhibition will be displayed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. beginning in February, 2003.

The exhibition has been guest curated by Deborah Cullen, Curator, El Museo Del Barrio, New York City.
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November 1, 2002: Sothebys.com auction to benefit IPCNY. An auction of donated prints takes place on Sothebys.com presented by Ebay to benefit IPCNY. The prints, ranging from old master to modern to contemporary are sold to underwrite IPCNY's programs for the current season. The dates of the auction are November 1-November 11, 2002. The prints are on view at Sotheby's Gallery at 1334 York Avenue through November 6th. For more information, please contact IPCNY.

 

September 18, 2002: IPCNY celebrates the new season with its opening of New Prints 2002/Autumn.



Janis Kounnelis, Constellation, 2002, Silkscreen, etching, Edition of 12
62 1/2 x 95 inches, Published by Har-El Printers & Publishers


Members, artists, publishers and friends attend the reception for the sixth of in a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY, presenting current prints by both established and emerging artists. The Selections Committee for New Prints 2002/Autumn was comprised of the following members: Leslie J. Garfield, collector and IPCNY trustee; Larissa Goldston, publisher, ULAE; Carin Kuoni, Director of Exhibitions, Independent Curators International; Marilyn Kushner, Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Andrew Mockler, Master Printer, Jungle Press Editions; and Wendy Weitman, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art.
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July 23, 2002: Professional Women's Exchange visits IPCNY for a reception and private viewing of New Prints 2002/Summer. Anne Coffin, Director of IPCNY, talks about IPCNY and introduces Randy Rosen, a member of the PWE and IPCNY, who offers a lively introductory talk on print collecting with particular reference to the prints on view.


 
 

May, 2002: IPCNY is honored to be the recipient of a $50,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded in May, 2002, as part of a $50 million emergency funding program established to help New York City arts and cultural organizations struggling in the aftermath of September 11th. The grant will be applied to general operating expenses.


 

May, 2002: Dudley Del Balso joins IPCNY's Board of Trustees. An independent curator and artist's consultant, Del Balso has had a long involvement with contemporary artists as a representative and as a collaborator on exhibitions and publications.


 

May 9, 2002: New Prints 2002/Summer


Suzanne McClelland, Could, 2001, Color etching and woodcut.
Edition of 35, 14 3/4 x 17 inches
Published by Diane Villani Editions

New Prints 2002/Summer is the fifth in a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY and presenting current prints by both known and unknown artists at all stages of their careers. Those serving on the Selections Committee were Susan Lorence, private dealer; John Morning, graphic arts designer and Chairman of IPCNY, Marc Schwartz, collector; Pari Stave, Director, The AXA Gallery; Robert Storr, Senior Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art; and Terry Winters, artist. The show runs through July 27, 2002. -more-


 

February 28-April 27,2002: Romance and Solitude: American Prints 1900-1941, Selections from the collection of Theodore C. Rogers


Edward Hopper, Night on the El Train, 1918, Etching, 7 1/2 x 8 inches

The prints in the exhibition date from the early years of the 20th Century and include outstanding examples of the work of Peggy Bacon, Will Barnet, George Bellows, Howard Cook, Mabel Dwight, Edward Hopper, Martin Lewis, John Sloan and Benjamin Spruance. These images, ranging in mood from joy to melancholy, represent a sampling of Theodore C. Rogers' comprehensive collection of American etchings, aquatints, drypoints, lithographs and wood engravings. -more-

 

February 14, 2002: Judith Brodsky, Founder and former Director of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, an artist, academic and arts administrator, is elected to IPCNY's Board of Directors.

 

February 12, 2002: IPCNY awarded $25,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as part of a program created to help small and medium sized arts and cultural organizations impacted by September 11th and the resultant cut back in arts funding. Ten million dollars was distributed to 137 organizations across the five boroughs of the city in grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000.

 

January 6, 2002: Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process closes in Naples, Fla. at the Naples Museum of Art, completing its four city national tour begun at The AXA Gallery in New York City in November 2000. Generating positive reviews and enthusiastic audience response, and accompanied by educational programs, public lectures, and a handsome catalogue, the exhibition was seen by over 50,000 people from New York to Boise, Idaho, Santa Fe, NM, and Naples, Fla.

 


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  October 16, 2001: Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process opens at its fourth and final venue at the new Naples Museum of Art in Naples, Florida where it will remain on view until January 6, 2002.
 

October 11, 2001: IPCNY 6:45 Print Club
IPCNY's 6:45 Print Club, a new young members' group, is launched at Two Palms Press in SoHo with a printmaking demonstration and reception, and will be followed by additional events for Club members and their guests this season.

 

June 8, 2001: Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process, IPCNY's Inaugural Exhibition, opens at its third venue, the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 

June 1, 2001: IPCNY announces the publication of its first benefit edition print, "Untitled IPCNY," a relief print by Jessica Stockholder.

IPCNY is grateful to the artist and to the printer, Two Palms Press, for donating this exciting print to benefit our exhibitions program. Printed in an edition of 100 signed and numbered by the artist, the print incorporates wood engraving, embossment and collage (silk and fake fur) and is printed on hand-made paper. Measuring 12x16 inches, it is available through IPCNY. For more information, call the office at (212) 989-5090, or stop by the gallery to see it in person!

 

January 2001: Hard Pressed, 600 Hundred Years of Prints and Process, originally scheduled to close on January 14 2001, is extended for two weeks at the AXA Gallery. New closing date: January 27th. Next venue: The Boise Museum of Art, opening date: March 3rd, 2001.

 


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  November 2, 2000: IPCNY's Inaugural Exhibition, Hard Pressed, 600 Years of Prints and Process, opened at the AXA Gallery (formally the Equitable Gallery) at 787 7th Avenue in New York City. Five hundred people attended the opening of this groundbreaking show curated by David Platzker, independent curator and Director of Printed Matter in Manhattan, and Elizabeth Wyckoff Ph.D., Print Specialist at the New York Public Library. The show is reviewed by Grace Glueck in the New York Times on December 8, 2000 and by Claudia La Rocco in Art on Paper in the January-February 2001 edition.
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November 2, 2000: IPCNY's Inaugural Publication, the exhibition catalogue of Hard Pressed, 600 Years of Prints and Process, is published by Hudson Hills Press, New York, in association with IPCNY. Copies of the catalogue are available at the exhibition venues, or through IPCNY and at bookstores nationwide.


 

September 21, 2000: IPCNY opens its Chelsea space with New Prints 2000

at 526 West 26th Street, Room 824. The work of 43 artists is included in this first juried show of contemporary prints, which will remain on view through January 19th.