International Print Center New York presents New Prints 2009/Autumn in its gallery at 526 West 26th Street, Room 824, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea. On view from October 30 through December 12, the show consists of sixty works by thirty-eight emerging to established artists, and two collectives, selected from a pool of nearly 2,000 submissions. A reception will be held at IPCNY on October 29, from 6-8 pm.
The Selections Committee for New Prints 2009/Autumn included Erin Donnelly, Director, Artist Residencies, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Richard Dupont, Artist; James Miller, Studio Director and Master Printer, Lower East Side Printshop; José Roca, Artistic Director and Chief Curator for Philagrafika 2010; Jessica Weber, Jessica Weber Design; and Maud Welles, Collector.
New Prints 2009/Autumn is the thirty-third 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/Autumn is as follows: Rosaire Appel, Lynne Avadenka, Chloé Beaulac, Håkan Berg, Anders Bergstrom, Annie Bissett, Shawn Bitters, Marc Blumthal, Nicholas Brown, Victoria Burge, Enrique Chagoya, John Robert Craft, Danielle Creenaune, Danielle Dimston, Mark Franchino, Bryan Nash Gill, Talia Greene, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Wojciech Kubrakiewicz, José Antonio Suárez Londoño, Nicola López, Nichole Maury, Allan McCollum, Mitch Mitchell, Sarah Nicholls, Ardan Ozmenoglu, Mark Pease, Liliana Porter, Endi Poskovic, Martin Puryear, Ross Racine, Duke Riley, India Ritchie, Nickolaus Typaldos, Tomi Um, Daryl Vocat, and Fred Wilson. The collectives represented are: Anymalfunction, Burtonwood & Holmes and Inthang, and Railsmith: Aardvark Aaronson, Sterling Allen, Alice Leora Briggs, Veronica Ceci, Tom Druecker, Katherine Jones, Jules Buck Jones, Drew Liverman, Krista Peters, Matt Rebholz, and Margaret Simpson.
A curatorial essay by Richard Dupont will accompany the exhibition.
New Prints 2009/Autumn includes three screenprinted T-shirts shrink-wrapped in meat packaging, and five books, two of which, The Collapse of the Home I & II by Railsmith, contain five 3-D, pop-up printed objects each. Other highlights of the exhibition include: Duke Riley’s Morituri Te Salutant , a lazer engraving and drypoint on plexiglass, based on the artist’s recent performance staging of a Roman sea-battle-to-the-death at the former Worlds Fair site, in Queens, New York; a grouping of Allan McCollum’s digital embroideries of black, almalgamous sillouettes in oval frames; two photogravures by Liliana Porter that capture anthropomorphic toys wearing a wedding dress and a tutu; and Isca Greenfield-Sander’s Bright Beach, a photgravure and aquatint etching that depicts a beach party ablaze with light and color under the sun.
Twenty-seven of the artists produced their work independently. Presses and printshops represented include: Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, The Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, La Caja Negra, CRE Studio, Paulson Press, Railsmith, SOLO Impression, and the Tamarind Institute. New Prints 2009/Autumn includes prints from coast to coast and abroad, including Canada, England, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.
With rare exceptions, 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.
New Prints 2009/Autum will travel in January 2010 to the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University in Philadelphia as part of the programming for Philagrafika 2010. All New Prints exhibitions, along with selected other IPCNY shows are available for tour through IPCNY’s Exhibition Touring Program. For further information, contact Kendra@ipcny.org.
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-three exhibitions have included work from nearly 1,500 artists and 250 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.
The New Prints Program is funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Generous funding is provided by The Greenwall Foundation. Support for New Prints brochures is provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Gallery hours are 11- 6 p.m., Tuesday - Saturday. There will be extra hours during Print Week on Sunday, November 8, from 11 – 2pm. For additional information, call (212) 989-5090 or visit IPCNY's website www.ipcny.org. New Prints 2009/Autumn will be posted and documented on the site together with prior exhibitions presented by IPCNY. For further information regarding this exhibition, please contact Kendra Sullivan at kendra@ipcny.org.
Image: Victoria Burge, Fargo, 2009, photopolymer intaglio, edition size: 7, 14 x 12 inches, printed and published by the artist. Allan McCollum, The Shapes Project: Threaded Shapes, Coll No.21-2883, 2005/2009–10, framed ovals with digitized embroidered shapes on cotton fabric, each shape is unique and available in units of 1, 3, 6, 9 ,18, 36, 72 or 144, only 144 available from this collection, 11.25 x 9.25 inches (each in a walnut frame), fabricated by Judith Solodkin, Theodore Yemc and Rodney Doyle, published by SOLO Impression. Martin Puryear, Black Cart, 2008, color aquatint etching with chine collé, edition: 50, 35 x 28 inches, printed and published by Paulson Press.
