New Prints 2004/Autumn


Tom Friedman, Untitled, 2004
Relief print, Edition of 12. 23 x 16 inches
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Published by Island Press. Printed by Tom Reed

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From November 5 to December 23, 2004, International Print Center New York presents New Prints 2004/Autumn, an exhibition of forty-five prints by forty artists selected from a pool of over twelve-hundred works created within the past year. New Prints 2004/Autumn is the fourteenth presentation of IPCNY's New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions highlighting current prints made by artists at all stages of their careers. With this exhibition, IPCNY continues its presentations of contemporary artists' prints, establishing an ongoing exhibition venue for new work and a central source of information about artists working today in the medium of printmaking.

The Selections Committee for this exhibition was made up of the following individuals: Clifford Ackley, Ruth and Carl Shapiro Curator, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Lesley Dill, artist; Ronald Gross, collector and Trustee of IPCNY; Alexandra Herzan, President, The Lily Auchincloss Foundation and Trustee, The Museum of Modern Art; Frederieke Taylor, Frederieke Taylor Gallery; and Tomas Vu Daniel, artist and Director, The Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University.

A curatorial essay by Lesley Dill will accompany the exhibition.

Consistent with all New Prints exhibitions thus far, New Prints 2004/Autumn includes work from a wide range of artists and presses across the country. This show also includes prints by artists living in Austria, Norway and South Africa. Countless possibilities in printmaking are illustrated in the exhibition. There are numerous large-scale prints, such as Willie Cole's six-foot tall Silex Male: Ritual, created at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper in New Brunswick, NJ; and Jennifer Yorke's Have More (Blonde), a site-specific much larger-than-life installation of inkjet printed images of blonde hair on silk. There are also surprises from familiar names, such as a relief print by sculptor Tom Friedman created at Island Press in Missouri; and Gnosticisms, an artist's book of lithographs, the first limited edition artist's book made by poet Anne Carson, created at the Innovative Print Centre at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Among the more unconventional works included in the exhibition are Austrian artist Heimo Wallner's risqué silkcreens on ceramic tiles, and Q54 Spell, an extravagantly busy inkjet print filled with juxtaposed pop cultural images by South African artist Malcolm Payne.

The complete artists' list is as follows: Eric Avery, Kim Baranowski, Susannah Bielak, Marco Breuer, Christopher Brown, Christopher Cannon, Anne Carson, Willie Cole, Tallmadge Doyle, Tom Friedman, Joanne Greenbaum, Karla Hackenmiller, Takuji Hamanaka, Ann Hamilton, Don Ed Hardy, Al Held, Salomon Huerta, Julia Jacquette, Keiko Kamata, Jan Kolstad, Lin Lin, Cynthia Lollis, Kathryn Maxwell, Keegan McHargue, Will Mentor, Clarence Morgan, Yoko Motomiya, Heidi Neilson, John Newman, Malcolm Payne, Liliana Porter, Justin Quinn, Miriam Schapiro, Linda Schwarz, William Skerrit, Jacquie Strycker, James Surls, Heimo Wallner, Yihsin Wu and Jennifer Yorke.

| With rare exception, prints included in IPCNY's New Prints shows are for sale. IPCNY refers potential purchasers directly to the artist, publisher or gallery supplying the print. IPCNY requires no commission on sales.

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.

The New Prints Program is funded in part with a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; The New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The gallery is located in Chelsea on 26th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. Hours are 11- 6 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday. For additional information, call (212) 989-5090 or visit IPCNY's website www.ipcny.org. New Prints 2004/Autumn will be posted and documented on the site together with prior exhibitions presented by IPCNY.