In addition to its New Prints shows, IPCNY organizes two additional exhibitions per season in its gallery in Chelsea, one in the fall and one in the spring. These exhibitions provide context for the New Prints shows, presenting selections of prints from other periods or cultures. The prints are borrowed from public and private collections, and guest curated by experts in the field.
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Artists Collect: Prints from the Collecitons of Sol LeWitt, Kiki Smith, In Ms. Montgomery’s words, “the idea for this exhibition is to display groups of printed things—high and low and from all periods and cultural traditions— that have been acquired by artists who are engaged in making prints themselves. I’d like to show as many aspects of how artists collect as possible: Artists who are systematic collectors, those who acquire things casually, trade with friends and colleagues, and/or collect historical objects and printed images that relate to their work in one way or another. ” An illustrated brochure with a curatorial essay will accompany the exhibition. |
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Emerging Images: The Creative Process in Prints Wendy Weitman is Curator of the Exhibition. In her words: "One of the more fascinating aspects of printmaking is the flexibility for experimentation that it offers an artist, something unattainable in drawing or painting. Artists from Rembrandt to Johns have explored the intricacies of printed art. Changing ink colors, re-using matrices, and recording the evolution of an image are a few of the unique features of printmaking that artists continue to play with today. These distinctive aspects of the medium remain a vital outlet for contemporary artistic thinking and a source for exciting experimentation and creative inquiry. Watching artists work in this manner provides an intriguing glimpse into the aesthetic process…."
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Wallworks: Contemporary Pictorial Wallpapers Wallworks contextualizes contemporary wallpaper design by examining its evolution over a period of some two hundred years. Curated by decorative arts specialist Sarah Richards, it will include 35-40 examples of commercially available wallpaper illustrating the intersection of the decorative arts and culture at large. The range of technologies included in the exhibition will illuminate the commercial application of fine art printmaking techniques. Traditional mediums, such as woodcut and screenprint, will be shown along with mechanical reproduction and modern digital techniques. |
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Seeing God In Prints: Indian Lithographs from the Collection of Mark Baron and Elise Boisanté Curated by Andrew McCord and Mark Baron The story of Indian god prints, how the worship of Hindu deities became entwined with the export of printmaking expertise from Europe to India, and the subsequent development of major Indian publishing houses, will result in an exhibition with a high level of cultural and historical content. Tracing the history of this genre of printmaking, the Exhibition will include important examples of 19th-century prints produced in Germany for export to India, the earliest examples printed by the first Indian-run presses, and classic lithographs from the most famous early and mid-20th century Indian publishers including Calcutta Art Studio; Chore Bagan Art Studio, Calcutta; Chitrashala Press, Poona; Ravi Varma Press, Lonavla; and many others.
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The Future Must Be Sweet: Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 Years International Print Center New York announces the presentation of The Future Must Be Sweet: Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 Years, a group show of prints, artists’ books and printed objects made by artists participating in the Printshop’s residency program during its first forty years. The Exhibition will be on view from September 18th - October 11th in IPCNY’s gallery at 526 West 26th Street in Chelsea, Room 824. In collaborating with LESP on The Future Must Be Sweet, IPCNY honors the important contributions of a major non-profit New York City workshop that has provided facilities, instruction and technical and financial assistance to thousands of artists working in the medium of printmaking since its founding in 1968.
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Propagating Eden: Uses and Techniques of Nature Printing in Botany and Art Propagating Eden will present wide-ranging examples of historical and contemporary work in which botanists, printers and artists have incorporated nature printing techniques to serve their particular purposes. Nature printing is defined as the technique of making impressions either directly or indirectly from natural objects.
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Working With Prints: Selections From Eight Corporate Collections Sandra Lang is Curator of the Exhibition. In her words: “The fine art print is a staple of corporate collections in the United States today. Working with Prints demonstrates the range of ways that collections are shaped, and the high quality and diverse imagery that enliven the corporate environment. ”
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POP PRINTS from the Collection of John and Kimiko Powers The exhibition is comprised of a selection of prints by Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. Iconic images from the 1960's will be on view, such as Warhol's Campbell's Soup, and four screenprints from his Flowers series of 1970. Among the Warhol portraits included in the exhibition are Jackie (silver), Liz (published in 1964 by Leo Castelli), and Kimiko (a portrait of the collector).
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Graphic Reality Mexican Printmaking Today GRAPHIC REALITY documents the continuing vitality of printmaking in Mexico today. Some forty prints are in the Exhibition, dating from 1994-2006 and including etchings, drypoints, lithographs, woodcuts, linocuts, serigraphs, silkscreened skateboards, and animation pieces.
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New Editions Scotland Contemporary Artists' Prints from Glasgow, Edinburgh Aberdeen and Dundee 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.
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Moscow Grafika: Artists' Prints 1961-2005 Moscow Grafika is the first exhibition of prints from the Kolodzei Collection and the first showing of the graphic work of many of the artists in the United States. Moscow Grafika has been guest curated for IPCNY by Natalia Kolodzei. A curatorial essay by Ms. Kolodzei will accompany the exhibition.
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Industry and Idleness: Selections from the Collection of the Museum of the City of New York Borrowing its title from William Hogarth’s famous series published in London in 1747, Industry and Idleness features New York as a place of work and play in prints by a wide range of artists in mediums ranging from lithography, etching, mezzotint, engraving, wood and linoleum cut, to commercial media such as posters, advertisements, tabloids, menus, maps and wallpaper samples. Some of the artists represented in the classical mediums of printmaking are Alex Katz, Kyra Markham, Martin Lewis, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Nast, John Sloan and, unexpectedly, Mohammed Ali. Examples of printed ephemera include a rose-shaped souvenir from 1850 illustrating significant buildings of the day and a map from the 1920’s pinpointing ethnic neighborhoods and cultural landmarks.
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Impresionante! Innovative Prints by Contemporary Puerto Rican Artists In the words of the curators, "the artworks encompass a variety of approaches: political protest, poetic narratives, and formal proposals…. The work speaks to both the ephemeral nature of the printed image, as well as to its stubborn historical presence. Despite the range, all of these artists share a conceptual approach to printmaking, taking advantage of printed media's inherently self-reflective character."
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Trains, Balloons & Buggies: Lithographs by Honore Daumier from the Armand Hammer Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum Some fifty lithographs by Daumier, drawn from the Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection, will be on view. Subject matter varies from the horse-drawn carts and carriages in the agrarian French countryside to the urban adventure of the Parisian omnibus to the excitement of early air travel in the newly invented hot-air balloon. The
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California Abstract Expressionists: Prints from the Charles R. Dean Collection California Abstract Expressionists features some thirty prints in various mediums created by artists working during the post-war period, primarily in the Bay Area. Especially radical were Bay Area innovations in lithography, a number of rare examples of which are on view here. Artists represented in the exhibition are Dennis Beall, Roy De Forest, James Budd Dixon, Edward Dugmore, Leonard Edmondson, Ernest Freed, Sonia Gechtoff, Leon Goldin, James Kelly, Walter Kuhlman, Frank Lobdell, Robert McChesney, Byron McClintock, George Miyasaki, George Stillman, Sam Tchakalian and Joseph Zirker. A portfolio of offset lithographs, Drawings, of 1948, contains examples by Richard Diebenkorn and John Hultberg in addition to Dixon, Kuhlman, Lobdell and Stillman. It was the first Abstract Expressionist print portfolio produced anywhere in the United States.
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Traces and Traditions: Vietnamese Woodblock Prints Used as talismans, religious images, and as works of art, Vietnamese woodblock prints illustrate the continuity of cultural expression in this rich and ancient civilization. Traces and Traditions follows the evolution of woodblock printmaking from early impressions by Vietnamese ethnic minorities, to historic Buddhist images and texts, to traditional Dong Ho folk prints, to the work of five leading contemporary printmakers working in Vietnam today.
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Creative Space: 50 Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop Creative Space features a key selection of prints by artist and master printmaker Robert Blackburn and a dazzling array of artists' prints drawn from the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Archives and Collection, now on deposit at The Library of Congress. Artists represented include Will Barnet, Romare Bearden, Kathy Caraccio, Roy DeCarava, Ernest Crichlow, Mel Edwards, Antonio Frasconi, Mohammed Khalil, Roberto DeLamonica, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold and Charles White among many others. |
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Romance & Solitude: American Prints 1900-1941, Selection from the Collection of Theodore C. Rogers 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 Benton 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.
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Joint Venture: The Editions of Karen McCready and Jean-Yves Noblet The Editions of Karen McCready and Jean-Yves Noblet". The exhibition presents editions realized between 1991 and 2000 in a variety of media. The publishers offered a wide range of possibilities to their artists who responded to the invitation by creating images of invention and beauty.
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Imagined Worlds: Willful Invention and the Printed Image 1470 - 2005 An adage states that a picture is worth a thousand words. If that is true, published images are worth many times more. Printed images have long been a source of both practical information and aesthetic pleasure. Circulating far and wide and crossing cultural and temporal boundaries, prints profoundly affect how we perceive our world and the things within it, above it, and beneath it.
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Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process
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