New Prints 2008/Summer: Artist's Commentary
opening reception: Tuesday July 8th, 2008 6-8
June 26th – August 1st, 2008
International Print Center New York (IPCNY)
526 West 26th Street, room 824
New York, NY 10001
http://ipcny.org
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.
The complete artists’ list for NEW PRINTS 2008/Summer: Artists’ Commentary is as follows: Desirée Alvarez, Katie Baldwin, Kim Baranowski, Michael Barnes, Stephen Barnwell, Judy Bergman Hochberg, Randy Bolton, Liz Chalfin, Anne Chesnut, Leo Cunningham, Tallmadge Doyle, Eileen M. Foti, Leslie Golomb, Deborah Grant, Daniel Hauben, Sarah Hauser, Emily Henretta, Robin Holder, Cooper Holoweski, William Howard, Butt Johnson, Eve Kask, Michael Krueger, Ronna Lebo, Catherine LeCleire, Yvonne Leonard, Marc Lepson, Glenn Ligon, Joseph A. Lupo, Franco Marinai, Martin Mazorra, Traci Molloy, Nicholas Naughton, Leah Oates, Shani Peters, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Ross Racine, Christopher Rivera, Blake Sanders, Jonathan Thomas, Jeff Wetzig, Dan Wood, and Sang-Mi Yoo.
