NEW PRINTS 2007/WINTER

Klaus
Burgel,
Beach, 2006,
Digital inkjet print and silkscreen, 15 x 22 1/3 inches,
Published Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University,
New York
From
January 11th to February 24th, 2007, International Print Center
New York will present New Prints 2007/Winter, consisting
of fifty-two prints and three artists' books by thirty-nine emerging
to established artists selected from a pool of approximately 1,500
submissions. With this exhibition, IPCNY continues its role as an
ongoing exhibition venue for new prints and a central source of
information about artists working in the medium of printmaking.
New
Prints 2007/Winter is the twenty-second presentation of IPCNY's
New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions highlighting
exceptional contemporary prints made within the past year by artists
at all stages of their careers.
The
Selections Committee for New Prints 2007/Winter was: Amy
Cutler, artist; Luther Davis, Master Printer, Axelle Fine Arts;
Paul Laster, Editor, ArtKrush; Mary Ellen Oldenburg, art
historian and collector; Robert Rainwater, Independent Curator;
Mary Ryan, Director, Mary Ryan Gallery.
A curatorial
essay by Paul Laster will accompany the exhibition.
Seventeen
of the thirty-nine artists participating in New Prints 2007/Winter
are from New York. Other states represented in the exhibition are
California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, and Washington, as well as Washington D.C. and Ontario,
Canada. Established workshops and publishers are joined, for the
first time, by the newly established Cade Tompkins Editions with
a serigraph by the artist Carl Fudge.
Highlights
of the exhibition include a silkscreened, hand-stenciled accordion
book by Kiki Smith; a new color lithograph by Enrique Chagoya; selections
from Polly Apfelbaum's Flags of Revolt and Defiance; Ghada
Amer's For Wonder Women, a lithograph with hand-sewing; a
group of intaglio prints by Kota Ezawa, a San Francisco artist known
for his animation videos and light box pieces; and a paper pulp
piece by Mona Hatoum. Works published and submitted by the artists
themselves include Olympia (after Cezanne), an etching aquatint
with chine collé by Robert Creighton; a pair of solar plate
etchings, Assassins and Na,Na
by Klara Glosova; Sausage
Princess Dies and What it Means for the Folks, an etching by
emerging Brooklyn artist Dasha Shishkin; and Max Liboiron's Experiments
with Plants B, a collograph/drypoint.
The
complete artists' list is as follows: Ghada Amer, Polly Apfelbaum,
Elizabeth Blomster, Nicholas Brown, Klaus Burgel, Enrique 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 H. Skerritt,
Kiki Smith, Hester Stinnett, Mary Temple.
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, artists'
talks and other special events, and has established an informational
website and Information Desk available to the public at the gallery.
IPCNY is almost totally dependent upon public and private donations
to support its programs.
The New Prints Program is funded in part with public funds from
the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York
State Council on the Arts, and The Greenwall Foundation and The
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
IPCNY's programs are supported with grants from the Lily Auchincloss
Foundation, the Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation
of New York, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Hess Foundation
and the Robert Lehman Foundation.
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 2007/Winter will be posted and documented on the site
together with prior exhibitions presented by IPCNY.
High resolution images and supplementary materials are available
upon request. For more information, contact Michelle Levy, michelle@ipcny.org,
212-989-5090.