NYAB Event - "New Prints 2008/Summer: Artists’ Commentary" Exhibition

"New Prints 2008/Summer: Artists’ Commentary" Exhibition

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At International Print Center New York
Media: Prints

International Print Center New York presents NEW PRINTS 2008/Summer: Artists’ Commentary. The show consists of forty-seven works by forty-two emerging to established artists, selected from a pool of approximately 800 submissions.

The Selections Committee for NEW PRINTS 2008/Summer: Artists’ Commentary included Nick Lamia, Artist and Instructor, Fordham University; Gary Simmons, Artist; Robin White Owen, Producer, MediaCombo; and Martha Wilson, Artist and Founding Director, Franklin Furnace Archive.

NEW PRINTS 2008/Summer: Artists’ Commentary is the twenty-eighth presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions highlighting contemporary prints made within the past year 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.

For this presentation, IPCNY invited submissions loosely grouped around the theme of artists’ responses to the current social and political climate. Highlights include: Pterrorists (archetype feathorrorae), handmade paper grenades with silkscreen and hand-colored portraits by Ronna Lebo; an untitled photogravure etching by Glenn Ligon of a neon sign reading “negro sunshine”; Cheney’s Camouflage, a lithograph portrait of Vice President Cheney on an empty french fries container by Eileen M. Foti; a silkscreened box containing a print by Catherine LeCleire entitled A Home For Palestine, and EV [e-ve] III. History, pages from an Estonian history book by Eve Kask digitally printed to remove every letter but E and V from the text.