Ink: New Prints
Jan 31, 2020 – Feb 29, 2020
Masami Teraoka, “AIDS Series/ Geisha in Bath”
While print making was invented in China in 105 AD, the mass production of paper in Europe during the 1400s proved to be major technological breakthrough, allowing printmakers to use carved wood and metal plates to produce multiple copies of the same image. Print-making was central to the revival of classical motifs during the Renaissance, as well as the circulation of technical drawings and popular images. Later, etching became the preferred medium of painters and experimental printmakers such as Rembrandt and Piranesi. After the Industrial Revolution, wood engraving, lithography, and a range of photomechanical methods proliferated, which, combined with the rigorous aesthetic of Japanese woodblock prints, had a decisive influence on both Impressionism and the avant garde movements of the next century.
However, printmaking has undergone various rapid changes in the last three decades. The increasing pace of technological development has inaugurated new digital forms while at the same time allowing artists to view previous modes of production in a more contextual and historical manner. Works Ink: New Prints translate ideas, scenes, and images into the printed form, using subtle monochrome, complex arrays of color, and expressive lines. This exhibition examines a wide range of artistic practices related to the print medium, from the return of more traditional printmaking techniques, new technologies, and the combination of the two. Methods include woodcuts, engraving, etching, mezzotint, drypoint, lithography, screen-printing, digital prints and foil imaging.
About the Juror:
Laura G. Einstein is currently Manager of the Mezzanine Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has more than thirty years’ experience in curating and museum work. Einstein has worked as Interim Head and Assistant Curator of the Asian Art Department at Yale University Art Gallery and lecturer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the IBM Gallery of Science and Art, among other institutions. Einstein served as Executive Director at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Artists:
Nancy Azara, Justin Barfield, Tanner Blackwell, Lisa Bulawsky, Keith Buswell, Ana Calzavara, Helen Cantrell, Yael David Cohen, Kyle Chaput, Beth Dorsey, Alanna Fagan, Eduardo Fausti, Deborah Freedman, Dirk Hagner, Sue Heatley, Daryl Howard, Sophia Isaak, Nina Jordan, Leekyung Kang, Jane Kent, Catherine Kernan, Christina Kirchinger, Andrea Kornbluth, Nancy Lasar, Andrew Lawson, Katherine Liontas-Warren, Emily Manning-Mingle, Elizabeth McAlpin, Daniel McDonald, Soledad Otero, Jonathan Palmer, Joseph Peller, Wendy Prellwitz, DeAnn Prosia, Marzieh Rahmani, Kasey Ramirez, Sylvia Roth, Amy Silberkleit, Nomi Silverman, Jos Stumpe, Mary Teichman, Masami Teraoka, Brandon Williams