On View: January 11 - February 24, 2007

Illustrated checklist available here.

Essay available here.
 

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.

Image Credit: Klaus Burgel, Beach, 2006, digital inkjet print and silkscreen. Edition of 15, 15 x 22 ½ inches. Printed by Megan Foster. Published by the Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University.