Catch up: Print Center

Besides writing full time, I'm also applying to MIT. So forgive me if you can for getting this to you late.




Andrew Kozlowski's Dear Tree Hugger... Images of barriers and destruction.


Isaac Tin Wei Lin's installation. Full review here.


Downstairs was a history of letterpress show. This is Las Obras de Jose Guadalupe Posada. Nice! Owned by U Penn.


Heidi Neilson's Atlas of Punctuation. Printed at WSW. It's a wonderfully simple idea. Eliminate everything from The Little Prince but the punctuation.

E/Ab

The Editions/Artists' Book fair is becoming the place to go to see great young print shops. I unfortunately didn't take as many photos as I should have.



Forth Estate and Alex Dodge, Simplexity (Double Helix)


Landfall Press and Jiha Moon, Procession- You are on your Way


LES printshop and William Powhida, Ars Magica

Print Center Annual

Don't forget to send in your art for the Print Center's 85th annual. It's due Dec 15. That's less than a week away from now. Do it! It's all online this year btw.

IFPDA

Yah, I've been away. Miami, Chicago, NY, NJ, Philly. I've not stopped finding, just writing them up. I've been adjusting to publishing over at Daily Serving on top of it. I did review the Print Center over at DS, so don't sleep.

Here's my picks from the IFPDA fair in NY.


This is printed off pin heads. Good ol'Tara Donovan printed by Pace.


Christiane Baumgartner in her signature style.


1500's Netherlandish School Memento Mori Engraving. Thought to be a unique surviving image.


Guillermo Kuitca 1997 lithographs.


Ed Ruscha Motor City 2009, seven itaglio images. I think I could find space for those if I had the $12K to buy them.


Grayson Perry, Map of Nowhere (blue), 2008 from Paragon Press.

EFA

Today, the EFA is the overlord of Bob Blackburn's studio. During Print Week, I stopped by for an opening there. Naturally, there were some excellent works up in the Members show. They also had up All We Ever Wanted was Everything which was 9 piles of posters that you could take copies of.


One of Justin Sanz's monoprints. They make me like monoprints.


No idea who made this, but it's pretty good.

No World, Screen Prints from a Midwest Wasteland

More MAPC. 3-D and No World were both at the Center for Book Arts.


Adam Turman, Enjoy the Ride


Amy Jo Hendrickson, Untitled


Dale Flattum, Untitled


Erick Anthony Hamline, Bad Acid

Prints, Now in 3-D!

Also at MAPC (almost done. Found another pile of images to share today when cleaning up the laptop).


Eun-Kyung Suh, Between (2007) 99 prisoners of conscience in Korea. Detail:




Ina Kaur, Broken Link (2009)


Michelle Murillo, Destinations (2009)


Jonathan Stewart, Nowhere Else to Go/Panhandling for Change/Pregnancy Test/Rejection Letter (2009)

Damn. Leaving With the Kids is missing from my photos of Stewart's work.

Ayumi Yoshida's Reverberation

Ayumi Yoshida, a 3rd generation artist had an installation at MCAD during MAPC.


15 feet or so. Plywood, sumi ink, acrylic.




Detail of the above, which is a vinyl print.

MFA Boston in late Oct of 2010

The New Works: Prints, Drawings, Collages from the MFA is always a good go. They also have up Millet and Rural France, a quick hallway show that follows Café and Cabaret: Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris.


The New Work Show-- From L->R-- Christiane Baumgartner (Trails 1 + 2), Ralph Coburn (Untitled 1961), Alan Shields (Frute Dish 1974), James Siena (Upsidedown Devil Variation 2004), and Tara Donovan (untitled 2008)


James Siena- Upsidedown Devil Variation from 2004. Sexy intaglio.


Some guy named Jasper Johns? Untitled 1995 ULAE printed.


Man Turning Over the Soil-- an 1863 Wood Engraving that was unfinished by Millet.

The Flower Show @ MIA

Minneapolis Institute of Art is an incredible place. Hot House: Flowers for after the Frost is a good example. Nerd out people:


Two Mondrian's on either side of a Kelly-- Cyclamen V, 1964.


Flos Solis Maior, After Basil Besler-- From The Garden of Eichstätt


Pineapple Flower with Insects, After Maria Sibylla Merian, Plate cut by Joseph Mulder-- From Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium


Hurdy Gurdy Man (Chrysanthemums) a video by Jennifer Steinkamp from 2006 projected on the wall.

Seen at the Walker Art Center

Let's call this the million dollar wall and all be jealous.


Kara Walker at the Walker. Seems right.


Rirkrit Taravanija's Untitled 1992 (Red, Yellow, Green Curry) Produced in edition of 10.

More shows of course!

At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Gary Lichtenstein 35 Years of Screenprinting.

Heading off to Philly this weekend. I hope to see the Theatrum Pictorium cuz I'm a nerd!

Took some photos at the Boston MFA tonight and will try to put them up soon. May have to be put off till early next week whence I'll finish off MAPC junk, post Philly stuff, maybe the M.C. Escher show if I get to it tomorrow, and of course, the MFA stuff.

Some more info

Visionary Realists at UNC

At the Heart of Progress which is traveling Oct 19, 2010 to Jan 23, 2011: Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State U.

I have it on good authority that Trenton Doyle Hancock has some etchings up at the Studio Museum in Harlem. And depending on how anti-photo you are, Harlem Postcards is a series of multiples that deserves attention.

At SCAD there is Chakaia Booker Exhibition: Sustain with some photogravures. Fuel to the Fire: The Poster Design of Methane Studios on the hand made poster side of things.

At VCU is Imaging South Africa: Collection Projects by Siemon Allen, which has quite a bit of digital prints, newspaper, and vinyl records. Again, depending on how vehement you are for traditions-- This is filled with printed matter to me.

Last, MOCA GA Collects: Art on Paper, Came down recently. It had lithos from Trena Banks, Michael Ellison, Stefanie Jackson, Wadsworth Jarrell, John T. Riddle, Kevin Sipp, Larry Walker and a silk screen from Lev Mills.

More Oct shows

I forget to mention three bigger shows that I know about: Piranesi as Designer at Cooper-Hewitt in Ny. The NYT reviewed it too.

Also in NY is Pace Prints 50th anniversary. Which may be down as of this week, so it's too late, but they are definitely worth the mention. Their website says that they have up New Editions: Ingrid Calame, Tara Donovan, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman and Dan Walsh and Louise Nevelson: Prints and Multiples 1953-1983.

Last and friggin not least, is William Kentridge at MassArt. He is getting quite a bit of play in the last few years. Tonight is the PBS premier of Anything is Possible. So go see them if you can and check your locally supported by viewer like you, PBS listings.

MAPC, you had so much stuff.

So, just a little more than a year ago, the Boston MFA lost a great staff member to Minneapolis Institute of Art: Tom Rassieur. But during MAPC it was great to get to see the print room at MIA as Tom was running things and graciously pulling out almost anything from MIA's great collection.



He also juried the MAPC group show which included Stefanie Dykes' Placing and Replacing. An excellent art work and worthy of the first prize.

MFA's in the 2000's

(Heather O'Hara's Patterns of Violence)

One of the panels at MAPC was about recent MFAs and their struggles after getting that terminal degree. There was also an exhibition of the same subject put together by Stephanie Hunder that was pretty excellent, and may have been my favorite part of that evening's bus ride.


(Carrie Lingscheit's Momento No. 5192 (Hang)


Artists: Kjel Alkire, Tonia Bonnell, Nick Conbere, James Ehlers, Carrie Lingscheit, Deb Oden, Heather O'Hara, Travis Janssen, Johanna Mueller, Joanne Price, Kathy Puzey, Jason Scuilla, Justin Strom, Satan's Camaro, Joseph Velasquez, and Melinda Yale.


(Travis Janssen's As Different As-- Detail below)

More from Highpoint Press

Carlos Amorales had work up at Highpoint. These solid and blocks of color are made of randomly arranged metal and plastic blocks that are surface rolled.




(Yes the lights were still being put up. Did I mention all of the people who work there were really great? They were.)

One of the other things I found interesting was the Julie Mehretu flipbook that printer, director, and generally good guy Cole Rogers showed us. It's the entire print broken down into layers printed onto duralar or whatever acetate they use in the shop. With such a layered print, it was good to see the entire thing broken down into each moment.

MAPC Minneapolis

This is just a quick post to let y'all know about one awesome thing I saw already at MAPC. At Highpoint press I saw Dodgeball by Rob Fischer.


Now normally, this isn't news, no matter how cool that print is. But seeing the matrix that they printed the intaglio from is.



That white line across the matrix is the back of the larger sized silkscreen press at Highpoint.

More to come as time permits!