New
Editions/Scotland:
Contemporary Artists' Prints from Glasgow,
Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee
International
Print Center New York announces the presentation of New
Editions/Scotland, a group show of contemporary prints
from four leading Scottish workshops. New Editions/Scotland
will be on view from March 9-April 22, 2006, in IPCNY's
gallery at 526 West 26th Street in Chelsea, Room 824.
The
2005/06 season marks IPCNY's 5th Anniversary of exhibitions
and programming celebrating the fine art print.
New
Editions/Scotland is being organized by International
Print Center New York in collaboration with John Mackechnie,
Director of the Glasgow Print Studio and a founder of the
newly formed CELscotland, Contemporary Editions Limited,
a consortium of the Glasgow Print Studio, Dundee Contemporary
Arts, Edinburgh Printmakers and Peacock Visual Arts of Aberdeen.
The
Scottish Arts Council has provided funding for the Exhibition.
The
Exhibition will be on view during Tartan Week with an evening
reception on Wednesday, April 5th, 6-8 p.m. Richard Holloway,
Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council, will speak at 6:30.
John Mackechnie of the Glasgow Print Studio and David Watt,
Director of Edinburgh Printmakers, will also be present
to answer questions about the unique cluster of publicly
funded print studios that operate today in Scotland.
New
Editions/Scotland is the first major presentation of
contemporary Scottish prints and artists' books in New York
City in nearly twenty years. It is the first showing in
the United States of the graphic work of many of these artists.
An
illustrated brochure with a curatorial essay by Mr. Mackechnie
will accompany the Exhibition.
New
Editions/Scotland includes more than forty works including
two print portfolios and three artists' books by some thirty
artists in various mediums of printmaking including etching,
mezzotint, photo-etching, woodcut, screenprint and lithography.
Dating
from 1998 through 2005, the work represents significant
trends in contemporary Scottish art. New Editions/Scotland
also serves as documentation of the continuing tradition
of a long and distinguished history of fine art printmaking
in Scotland.
The
complete artists' list for New Editions/Scotland
is as follows: Elizabeth Blackadder, Clare Barclay, Christine
Borland, Martin Boyce, John Byrne, Scott Campbell, Steven
Campbell, Ken Currie, Alan Davie, Katy Dove, Stuart Duffin,
Mateusz Fahrenholz, Moyna Flannigan, Jo Ganter, Callum Innes,
John Mackechnie, Norman Mathieson, Will Maw, Bruce McLean,
Abigail McLellan, Jacqueline Moon, Toby Paterson, Robert
Paul, Jila Peacock, Philip Reeves, Ray Richardson, Murray
Robertson, Dave Sherry, Alan Shipway, Ross Sinclair, Graeme
Todd, Adrian Wiszniewski, and Richard Wright.
The
participating workshops, from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee
and Aberdeen, are four of a large network of non-profit,
open-access, artist-run print studios that now exist across
Scotland. The presentation of a rich and varied selection
of work from these shops is a major visual arts component
of Tartan Week, being celebrated in venues across New York
City from April 2nd-9th.
Talisker
Distillery and Scottish Gourmet USA are contributing to
IPCNY's Reception on April 5th.
A
related exhibition of contemporary Scottish prints will
be on view this spring, beginning March 31st, at the Highpoint
Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For further
information about this exhibition, visit www.highpointprintmaking.org,
For
additional information about Tartan Week, visit www.tartanweek.com.
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