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Exhibition: Sat Apr 21- Sat May 19
Flatbed Press and Gallery, Austin, TX
During the summer of 2011, Flatbed master printer Katherine Brimberry led a group of artists to Italy to work at the La Romita School of Art. La Romita is located in the hills above Terni, Italy in a historic Capuchin Monastery. Brimberry and the other artists concentrated on using polymer etching plates, experimental image making and printing techniques using water-based etching inks.
Out of La Romita is an exhibition of the prints that were inspired by this time and space. The artists who went to La Romita have continued to work and build upon the methods they experimented with there. The participating artists are in alpha order: Karla Barfield, Katherine Brimberry, Camilla Cowan, Mark Durbin, Lucy Flores, Chu Hui Pak, Jena Shepherd, and Enza Quargnali, artist and owner of La Romita.
Exhibition: Thu Mar 29- Fri May 25
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Featuring Tamarind artists associated with the hard-edge/color field movement that swept the art world in the 1960s and 70s.
Exhibition: Sun Apr 29- Fri May 25
Pocket Utopia/ C.G. Boerner, New York, NY
Artists and Other Frenchmen: portrait prints from Nanteuil to Villon
Pocket Utopia’s reopening show, a one-evening exhibition of Donald Steele’s photographs under the title The Queen and I, is followed by the gallery’s first exhibition proper, one that might also have been called The King and Others. Spanning more than three centuries of French printmaking, it assembles portraits of subjects as diverse as François I, the French king and patron of Leonardo da Vinci, and Louis XIV, the “Sun King,” as a shy six-year-old boy, to a whole parade of painters, sculptors, and engravers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Once celebrated, some of them working in the service of the French court, all but a few of these characters have since been forgotten. But not, of course, Charles Baudelaire, the poet of la vie moderne, seen here in two etchings by Marcel Duchamp’s brother Jacques Villon from around 1918.
Exhibition: Sat Apr 28- Sat May 26
Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Lost Angeles will feature a new body of work where Donwood turns his poignant perception on the impact of current societal trends and behavior towards Los Angeles. His visual meditation on society envelopes viewers in a beautifully, graphic landscape of impending doom. The fluid black and white scene resonates with honesty and forewarning. True to form, Donwood once again succeeds in giving flawless design to his version of our tragically flawed future.
On display will be an 18-foot apocalyptic panorama of the City of Angels being destroyed by fire, flood and meteor storm. Originally carved into 18 separate panels of linoleum then hand burnished onto Japanese Kozo paper, the never-before-seen, limited edition print was inspired by subject matter similar to Donwood’s 2006 work titled London Views.
Exhibition: Wed Apr 18- Sat May 26
Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany
Roy Lichtenstein
(Manhattan 1923 – 1997 Manhattan)
selected prints
Exhibition: Sun Feb 5- Sun May 27
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
There has not been a solo exhibition of Paul Wunderlich in Hamburg until now.
This presentation of the artists’ lithographs at the Hamburger Kunsthalle intends to fill this gap. Until his death in 2010, Wunderlich was among the artists in the city who enjoyed a high international reputation. Clearly, Wunderlich’s career had an early start. Even as a student at the Hamburg Academy of Visual Arts, he was made director of the graphic arts workshop, where he printed for Emil Nolde and Oskar Kokoschka and introduced his colleague Horst Janssen to the art of etching. The scandal surrounding his “qui s’explique” lithography rocketed Wunderlich to fame and secured him a place in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In his lifetime, Wunderlich was also the only German artist to be admitted to the exclusive “Académie des Beaux-Arts” in Paris.
Exhibition: Sun Feb 19- Mon May 28
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland/ Ohio
The Morgan Library and Museum has the largest and finest collection of Rembrandt prints in the country. The nearly 500 impressions survey the artist’s career as a printmaker from about 1626 to about 1661, during which time he executed some 290 plates. The Cleveland Museum of Art will exhibit a large group of these works, all of which demonstrate that Rembrandt was not only a gifted painter and superb draftsman but also an extremely experimental and original printmaker.
Exhibition: Tue Apr 17- Thu May 31
Edition Domberger, Filderstadt, Germany
Galerie Domberger presents brand-new works by Tina Tahir in our 12th online exhibition just in time for spring.
During the last weeks we produced a couple of very interesting prints and objects in cooperation with the Chicago based German artist.
Amongst others an outstanding plexiglas object consisting of six crystal clear panes – silk screened and stuck together in a special procedure – was developed.
You can also look forward to a series of new and very interesting unique prints – produced in a small edition and hand colored by the artist.The show is completed by some extraordinary original drawings produced on 3 to 4 transparent papers lying upon another.
Exhibition: Tue May 1- Thu Jun 14
Swifty's, New York, NY
Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to present works on paper by Karen Tompkins and sculpture by Nick Sayers.
Exhibition: Thu May 3- Sat Jun 2
Collum Gallery, Seattle, WA
Through the woodblock and linocut medium, twelve printmakers from the Northwest and U.S. present personal mythologies, social perceptions of worry and hope, and explorations of the mental and emotional layers of identity that create the Texture of Being.
Exhibition: Fri May 4- Sun Jul 15
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany
Exhibition: Fri May 4- Sat Jun 23
Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, NY
Martin Kippenberger completed The Raft of the Medusa portfolio in 1996, along with 24 paintings on the same theme, only a year before his death at the age of 44. In these prints Kippenberger cast himself as various figures in the famous painting of the same name by Théodore Géricault. Géricault’s massive canvas, completed in 1819, is an icon of French Romanticism, and depicts the tragedy that took place in 1816 when a French Royal Navy frigate ran aground off the West coast of Africa. Due to the shortage of lifeboats, 150 of the ship’s less well-off passengers hastily built a raft measuring 20x60 feet and were set adrift for 12 days. When they were rescued only 15 remained; the others died of starvation, were killed or thrown overboard, or threw themselves into the sea in despair. Géricault conducted extensive research on his subject by interviewing survivors, making preparatory sketches from subjects at a morgue and creating a scale model of the raft. Similarly, Kippenberger enlisted his wife and photographer Elfie Semotan to document him posing as the tortured subjects in Géricault’s painting, which he used as reference for the lithographs and paintings. One of the prints also illustrates a segment of the raft and Kippenberger even had a carpet woven with a diagram of the raft.
Exhibition: Thu May 10- Sun Jul 8
Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
With a catalogue essay by Roberta Waddell, a renowned print expert and former Curator of Prints at the New York Public Library, the catalogue and exhibition feature new works created by recipients of the Printshop’s Special Editions and Publishing Residencies: Hong Seon Jang, Jennie C. Jones, Darina Karpov, and David Kramer, and Enoc Perez.
Conference: Mon May 21- Fri Jun 29
LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York
The Advanced Printmaking Intensive focuses on teaching students new/traditional printmaking techniques and developing skills on all levels. Students and professionals have access to all printmaking techniques but focus in on their primary area of interest. Throughout the course, students have the opportunity to visit artists’ studios and prime New York print shops. They are exposed to the inner workings of the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies publishing operation at Columbia University.
The course gives students opportunities to learn the processes of photogravure, intaglio, silkscreen, woodcut, and offset lithography by working with established contemporary artists and master printers.
Exhibition: Tue May 22- Sat Aug 18
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Boston, MA
Centering on Harvard’s collection of Johns’s signature “crosshatch” works of the 1970s, this exhibition explores the impact of print on his oeuvre. It examines “print” and “the press” in terms not only of printmaking and Johns’s celebrated experiments in that medium, but also in informational terms, tracing his frequent use of newspaper collage and its material, temporal, and political implications. Also featured is comparative material exploring Johns’s relationship to the history of printing.
Exhibition: Wed May 23
IPCNY - Internation Print Center New York, New York
The International Print Center New York has announced its annual benefit event, which will take place on 23 May 2012 and will honor artist Claes Oldenburg, publisher Sidney Felsen, and curator Barry Walker. For more information contact Stephanie@ipcny.org.
Conference: Wed May 23
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Boston, MA
Celebrate the opening of the exhibition Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print with a reception and open galleries in the Sackler Museum from 5 to 8pm. Jennifer L. Roberts, exhibition curator and Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, will present the lecture The Printerly Art of Jasper Johns at 6pm.
Exhibition: Thu May 24- Fri Jul 27
International Print Center New York, New York, NY
New Prints 2012/Summer - Selected by Shahzia Sikander is the forty-second presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY several times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. An illustrated brochure, including an interview with Ms. Sikander, will accompany the exhibition.
Exhibition: Thu May 24- Sat Jun 30
Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
Woodcuts, Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes.
Exhibition: Fri May 25- Sat Jun 30
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Jerome Emerging Printmakers: Graham Judd, Gwen Comings, and Jonathan McFadden. The exhibition features screenprints, woodcuts, blind-embossings, and print installation work created at Highpoint during the artists’ residency.
Exhibition: Thu May 31- Fri Jul 13
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
SCREW YOU. , curated by David Platzker of Specific Object, shines a light on the intersection of counter culture publishing, tabloid pornography and the art world which occurred in the creatively fertile years of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Exhibition: Wed Mar 14- Sun Jun 3
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Featuring some fifty French and American prints from the collection of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., With A French Accent explores the French roots of American lithography. The exhibition and accompanying publication uncover several themes: the importance of French technology, the circulation and reproduction of French imagery, the stylistic contributions of French lithographic artists, and the reproduction of American genre paintings by French publishers for distribution in Europe and the United States. The exhibition was curated by Georgia Brady Barnhill ’66, Director of the Center for Historic American Visual Culture, and Lauren B. Hewes, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts, both of the American Antiquarian Society, based on research supported by funds from The Florence Gould Foundation of New York. At the Davis, this exhibition is made possible through generous support from the Marjorie Schechter Bronfman ’38 and Gerald Bronfman Endowment for Works on Paper.
Exhibition: Sun Jan 22- Wed Jun 6
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Love of nature and awareness of the changing seasons, longstanding motifs in the literary and visual arts of Japan, often appear in the ukiyo-e woodblock prints that chronicle the life of the urban middle class during the Edo period (1615-1867).
Exhibition: Sat Sep 24- Sun Jun 10
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
In its first ten years, Highpoint Center for Printmaking has become a vibrant part of the Twin Cities art scene. Less well known is its national and increasingly international stature as a publisher of exquisitely made prints. Highpoint Editions—Decade One celebrates its professional collaborations with fine artists of many stripes. The diversity and the quality testify to Highpoint’s master printer, Cole Rogers, and his talented staff’s ability to work with artists to realize their visions. The MIA is delighted to salute Highpoint and to present highlights from its production to a broad public audience.
Exhibition: Thu Apr 26- Sat Jun 16
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery is pleased to present its second exhibition with Thomas Nozkowski, comprised of the artist’s strikingly complex new print editions accompanied by hand- colored proofs and a suite of graphite drawings. The ensemble of these related images sheds light on the integral connections between the artist’s drawings, paintings on paper, and printmaking endeavors.
Exhibition: Fri Feb 10- Sun Jun 17
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
On the occasion of Louise Bourgeois’ 100th birthday, the Hamburger Kunsthalle will be showing sculptures, installations, etchings, tapestries and works made of fabric from the last 15 years in the life (1911-2010) of one of the most important and influential artists of our time. Several works in the exhibition have never been exhibited publicly until now.
Exhibition: Fri Feb 10- Sun Jun 17
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Organized to celebrate the Art Center’s recent acquisition of a very rare experimental color etching, Chinese Arabesque with a Double Parasol by Anne Allen, an 18th-century British printmaker active in France, Delicacies presents a group of works from the permanent collection in which artists express a sense of fragility, grace, lightness, and weightlessness. Prints and small sculptures depict an evanescent world of soft, impossibly balanced, flying, melting, and floating forms. These images are delineated in line or are evoked in transparent and luminous colors. The exhibition investigates some of the ways that artists from the 18th century to the present create a sense of delicacy through their imaginative visions and use of materials and techniques. Despite their apparently delicate and genteel natures, several of these delightful images are quietly subversive works.
Delicacies is organized by Amy N. Worthen, curator of prints and drawings.
Exhibition: Sat Sep 3- Sun Jun 17
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The first exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts’ newly renovated Japanese Print gallery focuses on a recent acquisition, a monumental hanging scroll of the Hell Courtesan by Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889). Known for the charm, eccentricity, and extraordinary skill of his work, Kyōsai gleefully satirized the complex political events of 19th-century Japan in both paintings and prints. Following a brief jail term for excessive criticism of the government, he resumed his career with such masterful works as the Hell Courtesan, which relates the story of a famed 15th-century beauty who wore a robe decorated with scenes from the Buddhist Hell. Her religious belief became sincere after she observed the eccentric Zen monk Ikkyū engaged in a lively dance with a retinue of skeletons. In Kyōsai’s personalized version of the story, traditional images of sin and suffering on the courtesan’s outer robe are replaced by cheerful scenes of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune distributing blessings.
Exhibition: Fri Apr 27- Fri Jun 22
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, UK
25 Years of Artists’ Projects at Paupers Press
Paula Rego, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Mat Collishaw, Bob & Roberta Smith, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Cornellia Parker, Keith Coventry, Glenn Brown, Catharine Yass, Tony Bevan, Charles Avery, Stephen Chambers, Sue Webster & Tim Noble, Richard Wathen, Chris Ofili, Hughie O’Donoghue, Rosie Snell, Jock McFadyen, Andrjez Jackowski, Elizabeth Magill, Brian Illsley, Christopher Le Brun, Jenny Saville, Tom Hammick, Paul Coldwell, Bill Jacklin, Gavin Turk, Anya Gallacio, Sarah Staton, Ellen Cantor, Dexter Dalwood, Alessandro Raho, Simon Periton, Fiona Banner, Abigail Lane, Gary Hume, Allen Jones, Michael Landy, Dirk Van Dooren, Cornelia Parker, Eileen Cooper & Simon English.
Exhibition: Sat Mar 3- Sun Jun 24
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Creating views of various locales in sets of eight has a long history in Japan. The concept originated in China during the Song dynasty, with a cycle of eight poems lauding the beauty at the confluence of the Xiao and Xiang rivers. The area where these rivers meet-in Hunan Province, in southeastern China-became a favorite subject for painters, who followed the themes established in the poems. The Chinese paintings inspired artists in other East Asian countries to adapt the eight themes to their local landscapes.
In Japan, the Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei) was the first such series. The scenery around Lake Biwa, the country’s largest lake, located in Omi Province, resembled the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang. By the late 17th century, the Eight Views of Omi was a well-known subject among Japanese painters and print designers. Later, artists also depicted eight views of other places, such as the oceanside town of Kanazawa and the Sumida River in Edo. Whatever the location, the images echoed the original eight themes: homing geese, returning sailboats, clearing weather, evening snow, autumn moon, night rain, evening bells, and evening glow.
Exhibition: Sat Sep 10- Sat Jun 30
UNM Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
An Inquisitive Eye provides visitors an occasion to view significant prints and printed books from the museum’s permanent collection which numbers over ten thousand, and spans the history of printmaking from 1493 to the present. Prints possess a multi-valent nature—both the subject and technique embodied in an image must be considered on equal footing, one not privileged over the other. The idea expressed on paper depends upon the printer’s abilities and particular materials to realize successfully the artist’s vision. Woodcuts from the Weltchronik (World Chronicle), Albrecht Dürer and Wassily Kandinsky, etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn, Man Ray and William Kentridge, lithographs by Honoré Daumier, George Grosz, and Robert Motherwell and screenprints by Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin and Matthew Barney illustrate the extent of the exhibition and the breadth of the museum’s collection which continues to serve as an important research and teaching resource for the university and the community at-large.
Exhibition: Wed Aug 17- Sun Jul 1
University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
American artist Gerry Bergstein juxtaposes images in his work to illustrate alternative universes and apocalyptic visions. Employing an encyclopedia of intaglio techniques, Apex includes etching, aquatint, lift ground, spit bite, drypoint, scraping, burnishing, and chine collé.
Inspired by drawings of wave patterns and cloud formations in the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519), this image typifies Bergstein’s concerns of the duality inherent in life and death, growth and decay.
The seven stages demonstrate the choices the artist made before reaching the final version that he approved for printing the edition. The image progresses from a graphite drawing to a black etching to a color print, with increasing linear complexity.
Bergstein describes his work as a contrast between “the awesome and the trivial, the high and the low, the manic and the melancholic, using sources from Brueghel to the Simpsons.” Throughout his career he has made prints, paintings, and mixed media works featuring collage and photographic assemblage, all of which depict imagery that borders on visual chaos.
Exhibition: Sat Jan 28- Sun Jul 1
de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
The original objective of Los Angeles–based print workshop Gemini G.E.L. was to print and publish prints. During its first decade, however, collaborations with visiting Pop artists such as Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg spurred the workshop into dimensions previously unexplored. In fact, it was Oldenburg’s ideas for Profile Airflow (1969), a color lithograph encased in molded plastic, that encouraged Gemini to expand its publishing parameters to include small-scale, editioned sculptures called multiples.
The multiples format provided an opportunity for artists to break free from the expectations of previous art movements, such as Abstract Expressionism, which promoted the idea of the physical “trace” of the artist. Attracted to Pop Art’s machine aesthetic, artists were also intrigued by the format’s limitless production possibilities, which made multiples an art form theoretically accessible to all. In reality, however, multiples production was not quite as seamless as its proponents supposed, and the price often proved prohibitive for the mass market.
The collaborative and experimental spirit artists experienced at Gemini led to innovative applications of industrial technologies to both multiples and traditional prints. This exhibition showcases a selection of prints and multiples published during this exploratory period in the workshop’s history.
Exhibition: Sat Apr 28- Sun Jul 29
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
Alex Katz (b. 1927), known for his bold, hard-edged figurative paintings and prints, is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. The MFA’s exhibition “Alex Katz Prints,” based on an exhibition organized by the Albertina Graphic Collection, Vienna, surveys his career from the sixties to the present with approximately 150 works: prints, unique and editioned cutouts on aluminum, and illustrated books, as well as paintings and drawings from the MFA’s collection. Katz depicts family members, art-world friends, and Maine landscapes with a cool detachment and a seductive elegance, while walking a tightrope between traditional figuration and pure abstraction. His portraits are among the most recognizable images in contemporary art. The artist’s model and muse for half a century has been his wife, Ada. Images of her in various guises will be on view along with portraits of prominent figures from New York’s art, dance, and poetry worlds. A focal point of the exhibition will be the unique series of painted life-size cutout heads on aluminum, Rush, a 2011 gift from the artist to the MFA. This will be an inaugural showing at the Museum of this exciting piece, which will be installed frieze-like in its own space. Comprising 37 silhouetted painted portrait heads, the series depicts members of the New York cultural scene of the 1960s and ’70s. The exhibition celebrates the promised gift from the artist to the MFA of an archive of his editioned prints.
Exhibition: Fri Apr 13- Tue Jul 31
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
On April 11, 2012 the Boston Public Library and Mixit Print Studio will present reThink INK—an exhibition unprecedented in the history of printmaking in Boston. Artist printmakers from Mixit Print Studio exploit printmaking as a contemporary language spanning a full spectrum from hand-held miniatures to sculptural, multi- media installations.
Exhibition: Tue Feb 7- Mon Sep 3
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paper Zoo brings together prints, drawings, and photographs of the animal kingdom (including birds and marine creatures) dating from about 1500 to the present. Featuring some 30–40 works by Rembrandt, Audubon, Picasso, and others, this delightful exhibition highlights different artistic approaches to the same creatures and will appeal to children and adults alike.
Exhibition: Tue Mar 27- Sun Sep 23
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Edgelands has been defined as that uncertain and overlooked zone, neither city nor countryside, lingering on the urban edge. George Shaw’s series, Twelve Short Walks, 2005, is drawn from revisited scenes of his childhood on the Tile Hill council estate in the suburbs of Coventry. Michael Landy’s Nourishment, 2002, features life-sized images of weeds, or ‘treet-flowers’ - the overlooked and neglected vegetation of Edgelands.
Exhibition: Thu Feb 2- Sun Sep 23
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The exhibition will show approximately 100 prints from the permanent collection, by artists including Bonnard, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec. This exhibition marks the publication of the first major study of the museum’s print collection, Printmaking in Paris. The rage for prints at the fin de siècle.
Exhibition: Tue Apr 3- Sun Oct 7
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Focusing on key objects ranging in date from the 15th to the 21st centuries, this exhibition will feature a selection of some of the Fitzwilliam’s most spectacular prints, and give visitors an insight into the extraordinary breadth of the collection. Works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, will hang alongside prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.
Exhibition: Sat Feb 18- Sun Oct 28
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
Edouard Manet’s friend, the poet Charles Baudelaire, described black as the color of the nineteenth century. Manet was a master in the use of black, asserting his bold and subtle imprint on a range of subjects, from exotic Spanish dancers to the horses and spectators at a thrilling Paris racetrack. This exhibition celebrates Manet’s brilliant achievements as a graphic artist. Known as the painter of modern life and the father of Impressionism, Manet was also an exceptionally gifted printmaker and draftsman, among the most daring and innovative of the nineteenth century.
Drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection and featuring a selection of some 50 prints and drawings by Manet and related artists—including Rembrandt and Degas—the exhibition spans a variety of subjects, techniques, and styles from throughout Manet’s career.
Exhibition: Sat Mar 24- Mon Dec 31
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
A fascination for all things Japanese swept the United States in the period around 1900. An influx of Japanese goods and emissaries into America sparked a wave of interest in a foreign culture once seen as impossibly remote. Artists and collectors gathered Japanese objects, studied Japanese traditions, and integrated Japanese styles and techniques into their own work. The Allure of Japan celebrates this cultural moment with a rich display of rarely exhibited American prints, posters, watercolors, and decorative arts complemented by a selection from the Museum’s renowned Japanese collections.
Exhibition: Thu May 3- Sat Jun 2
Collum Gallery, Seattle, WA
Through the woodblock and linocut medium, twelve printmakers from the Northwest and U.S. present personal mythologies, social perceptions of worry and hope, and explorations of the mental and emotional layers of identity that create the Texture of Being.
Exhibition: Wed Mar 14- Sun Jun 3
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Featuring some fifty French and American prints from the collection of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., With A French Accent explores the French roots of American lithography. The exhibition and accompanying publication uncover several themes: the importance of French technology, the circulation and reproduction of French imagery, the stylistic contributions of French lithographic artists, and the reproduction of American genre paintings by French publishers for distribution in Europe and the United States. The exhibition was curated by Georgia Brady Barnhill ’66, Director of the Center for Historic American Visual Culture, and Lauren B. Hewes, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts, both of the American Antiquarian Society, based on research supported by funds from The Florence Gould Foundation of New York. At the Davis, this exhibition is made possible through generous support from the Marjorie Schechter Bronfman ’38 and Gerald Bronfman Endowment for Works on Paper.
Exhibition: Sun Jan 22- Wed Jun 6
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Love of nature and awareness of the changing seasons, longstanding motifs in the literary and visual arts of Japan, often appear in the ukiyo-e woodblock prints that chronicle the life of the urban middle class during the Edo period (1615-1867).
Exhibition: Sat Sep 24- Sun Jun 10
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
In its first ten years, Highpoint Center for Printmaking has become a vibrant part of the Twin Cities art scene. Less well known is its national and increasingly international stature as a publisher of exquisitely made prints. Highpoint Editions—Decade One celebrates its professional collaborations with fine artists of many stripes. The diversity and the quality testify to Highpoint’s master printer, Cole Rogers, and his talented staff’s ability to work with artists to realize their visions. The MIA is delighted to salute Highpoint and to present highlights from its production to a broad public audience.
Exhibition: Tue May 1- Thu Jun 14
Swifty's, New York, NY
Cade Tompkins Projects is pleased to present works on paper by Karen Tompkins and sculpture by Nick Sayers.
Exhibition: Thu Apr 26- Sat Jun 16
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery is pleased to present its second exhibition with Thomas Nozkowski, comprised of the artist’s strikingly complex new print editions accompanied by hand- colored proofs and a suite of graphite drawings. The ensemble of these related images sheds light on the integral connections between the artist’s drawings, paintings on paper, and printmaking endeavors.
Exhibition: Fri Feb 10- Sun Jun 17
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
On the occasion of Louise Bourgeois’ 100th birthday, the Hamburger Kunsthalle will be showing sculptures, installations, etchings, tapestries and works made of fabric from the last 15 years in the life (1911-2010) of one of the most important and influential artists of our time. Several works in the exhibition have never been exhibited publicly until now.
Exhibition: Fri Feb 10- Sun Jun 17
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Organized to celebrate the Art Center’s recent acquisition of a very rare experimental color etching, Chinese Arabesque with a Double Parasol by Anne Allen, an 18th-century British printmaker active in France, Delicacies presents a group of works from the permanent collection in which artists express a sense of fragility, grace, lightness, and weightlessness. Prints and small sculptures depict an evanescent world of soft, impossibly balanced, flying, melting, and floating forms. These images are delineated in line or are evoked in transparent and luminous colors. The exhibition investigates some of the ways that artists from the 18th century to the present create a sense of delicacy through their imaginative visions and use of materials and techniques. Despite their apparently delicate and genteel natures, several of these delightful images are quietly subversive works.
Delicacies is organized by Amy N. Worthen, curator of prints and drawings.
Exhibition: Sat Sep 3- Sun Jun 17
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The first exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts’ newly renovated Japanese Print gallery focuses on a recent acquisition, a monumental hanging scroll of the Hell Courtesan by Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889). Known for the charm, eccentricity, and extraordinary skill of his work, Kyōsai gleefully satirized the complex political events of 19th-century Japan in both paintings and prints. Following a brief jail term for excessive criticism of the government, he resumed his career with such masterful works as the Hell Courtesan, which relates the story of a famed 15th-century beauty who wore a robe decorated with scenes from the Buddhist Hell. Her religious belief became sincere after she observed the eccentric Zen monk Ikkyū engaged in a lively dance with a retinue of skeletons. In Kyōsai’s personalized version of the story, traditional images of sin and suffering on the courtesan’s outer robe are replaced by cheerful scenes of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune distributing blessings.
Exhibition: Fri Apr 27- Fri Jun 22
Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, UK
25 Years of Artists’ Projects at Paupers Press
Paula Rego, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Mat Collishaw, Bob & Roberta Smith, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Cornellia Parker, Keith Coventry, Glenn Brown, Catharine Yass, Tony Bevan, Charles Avery, Stephen Chambers, Sue Webster & Tim Noble, Richard Wathen, Chris Ofili, Hughie O’Donoghue, Rosie Snell, Jock McFadyen, Andrjez Jackowski, Elizabeth Magill, Brian Illsley, Christopher Le Brun, Jenny Saville, Tom Hammick, Paul Coldwell, Bill Jacklin, Gavin Turk, Anya Gallacio, Sarah Staton, Ellen Cantor, Dexter Dalwood, Alessandro Raho, Simon Periton, Fiona Banner, Abigail Lane, Gary Hume, Allen Jones, Michael Landy, Dirk Van Dooren, Cornelia Parker, Eileen Cooper & Simon English.
Exhibition: Fri May 4- Sat Jun 23
Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, NY
Martin Kippenberger completed The Raft of the Medusa portfolio in 1996, along with 24 paintings on the same theme, only a year before his death at the age of 44. In these prints Kippenberger cast himself as various figures in the famous painting of the same name by Théodore Géricault. Géricault’s massive canvas, completed in 1819, is an icon of French Romanticism, and depicts the tragedy that took place in 1816 when a French Royal Navy frigate ran aground off the West coast of Africa. Due to the shortage of lifeboats, 150 of the ship’s less well-off passengers hastily built a raft measuring 20x60 feet and were set adrift for 12 days. When they were rescued only 15 remained; the others died of starvation, were killed or thrown overboard, or threw themselves into the sea in despair. Géricault conducted extensive research on his subject by interviewing survivors, making preparatory sketches from subjects at a morgue and creating a scale model of the raft. Similarly, Kippenberger enlisted his wife and photographer Elfie Semotan to document him posing as the tortured subjects in Géricault’s painting, which he used as reference for the lithographs and paintings. One of the prints also illustrates a segment of the raft and Kippenberger even had a carpet woven with a diagram of the raft.
Exhibition: Sat Mar 3- Sun Jun 24
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Creating views of various locales in sets of eight has a long history in Japan. The concept originated in China during the Song dynasty, with a cycle of eight poems lauding the beauty at the confluence of the Xiao and Xiang rivers. The area where these rivers meet-in Hunan Province, in southeastern China-became a favorite subject for painters, who followed the themes established in the poems. The Chinese paintings inspired artists in other East Asian countries to adapt the eight themes to their local landscapes.
In Japan, the Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei) was the first such series. The scenery around Lake Biwa, the country’s largest lake, located in Omi Province, resembled the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang. By the late 17th century, the Eight Views of Omi was a well-known subject among Japanese painters and print designers. Later, artists also depicted eight views of other places, such as the oceanside town of Kanazawa and the Sumida River in Edo. Whatever the location, the images echoed the original eight themes: homing geese, returning sailboats, clearing weather, evening snow, autumn moon, night rain, evening bells, and evening glow.
Conference: Mon May 21- Fri Jun 29
LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York
The Advanced Printmaking Intensive focuses on teaching students new/traditional printmaking techniques and developing skills on all levels. Students and professionals have access to all printmaking techniques but focus in on their primary area of interest. Throughout the course, students have the opportunity to visit artists’ studios and prime New York print shops. They are exposed to the inner workings of the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies publishing operation at Columbia University.
The course gives students opportunities to learn the processes of photogravure, intaglio, silkscreen, woodcut, and offset lithography by working with established contemporary artists and master printers.
Exhibition: Sat Sep 10- Sat Jun 30
UNM Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
An Inquisitive Eye provides visitors an occasion to view significant prints and printed books from the museum’s permanent collection which numbers over ten thousand, and spans the history of printmaking from 1493 to the present. Prints possess a multi-valent nature—both the subject and technique embodied in an image must be considered on equal footing, one not privileged over the other. The idea expressed on paper depends upon the printer’s abilities and particular materials to realize successfully the artist’s vision. Woodcuts from the Weltchronik (World Chronicle), Albrecht Dürer and Wassily Kandinsky, etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn, Man Ray and William Kentridge, lithographs by Honoré Daumier, George Grosz, and Robert Motherwell and screenprints by Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin and Matthew Barney illustrate the extent of the exhibition and the breadth of the museum’s collection which continues to serve as an important research and teaching resource for the university and the community at-large.
Exhibition: Fri May 25- Sat Jun 30
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Jerome Emerging Printmakers: Graham Judd, Gwen Comings, and Jonathan McFadden. The exhibition features screenprints, woodcuts, blind-embossings, and print installation work created at Highpoint during the artists’ residency.
Exhibition: Thu May 24- Sat Jun 30
Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
Woodcuts, Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes.
Exhibition: Fri Jun 1- Sat Jun 30
Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
Each piece in the Variations collection addresses the concept of individuality and multiplicity and how the art of printmaking fits into the conversation. As the Blanton Museum’s Print Room Manager Catherine Zinser notes, Heck’s incredible skill, studied mind and passion for printmaking come together in a unified voice that is sure to be “a beacon for the future of graphic arts”.
Auction: Thu Jun 7
Swann Auction Galleries, New York
Exhibition: Wed Aug 17- Sun Jul 1
University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
American artist Gerry Bergstein juxtaposes images in his work to illustrate alternative universes and apocalyptic visions. Employing an encyclopedia of intaglio techniques, Apex includes etching, aquatint, lift ground, spit bite, drypoint, scraping, burnishing, and chine collé.
Inspired by drawings of wave patterns and cloud formations in the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519), this image typifies Bergstein’s concerns of the duality inherent in life and death, growth and decay.
The seven stages demonstrate the choices the artist made before reaching the final version that he approved for printing the edition. The image progresses from a graphite drawing to a black etching to a color print, with increasing linear complexity.
Bergstein describes his work as a contrast between “the awesome and the trivial, the high and the low, the manic and the melancholic, using sources from Brueghel to the Simpsons.” Throughout his career he has made prints, paintings, and mixed media works featuring collage and photographic assemblage, all of which depict imagery that borders on visual chaos.
Exhibition: Sat Jan 28- Sun Jul 1
de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
The original objective of Los Angeles–based print workshop Gemini G.E.L. was to print and publish prints. During its first decade, however, collaborations with visiting Pop artists such as Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg spurred the workshop into dimensions previously unexplored. In fact, it was Oldenburg’s ideas for Profile Airflow (1969), a color lithograph encased in molded plastic, that encouraged Gemini to expand its publishing parameters to include small-scale, editioned sculptures called multiples.
The multiples format provided an opportunity for artists to break free from the expectations of previous art movements, such as Abstract Expressionism, which promoted the idea of the physical “trace” of the artist. Attracted to Pop Art’s machine aesthetic, artists were also intrigued by the format’s limitless production possibilities, which made multiples an art form theoretically accessible to all. In reality, however, multiples production was not quite as seamless as its proponents supposed, and the price often proved prohibitive for the mass market.
The collaborative and experimental spirit artists experienced at Gemini led to innovative applications of industrial technologies to both multiples and traditional prints. This exhibition showcases a selection of prints and multiples published during this exploratory period in the workshop’s history.
Exhibition: Thu May 10- Sun Jul 8
Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
With a catalogue essay by Roberta Waddell, a renowned print expert and former Curator of Prints at the New York Public Library, the catalogue and exhibition feature new works created by recipients of the Printshop’s Special Editions and Publishing Residencies: Hong Seon Jang, Jennie C. Jones, Darina Karpov, and David Kramer, and Enoc Perez.
Exhibition: Thu May 31- Fri Jul 13
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
SCREW YOU. , curated by David Platzker of Specific Object, shines a light on the intersection of counter culture publishing, tabloid pornography and the art world which occurred in the creatively fertile years of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Exhibition: Fri May 4- Sun Jul 15
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany
Exhibition: Thu May 24- Fri Jul 27
International Print Center New York, New York, NY
New Prints 2012/Summer - Selected by Shahzia Sikander is the forty-second presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY several times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. An illustrated brochure, including an interview with Ms. Sikander, will accompany the exhibition.
Exhibition: Sat Apr 28- Sun Jul 29
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
Alex Katz (b. 1927), known for his bold, hard-edged figurative paintings and prints, is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. The MFA’s exhibition “Alex Katz Prints,” based on an exhibition organized by the Albertina Graphic Collection, Vienna, surveys his career from the sixties to the present with approximately 150 works: prints, unique and editioned cutouts on aluminum, and illustrated books, as well as paintings and drawings from the MFA’s collection. Katz depicts family members, art-world friends, and Maine landscapes with a cool detachment and a seductive elegance, while walking a tightrope between traditional figuration and pure abstraction. His portraits are among the most recognizable images in contemporary art. The artist’s model and muse for half a century has been his wife, Ada. Images of her in various guises will be on view along with portraits of prominent figures from New York’s art, dance, and poetry worlds. A focal point of the exhibition will be the unique series of painted life-size cutout heads on aluminum, Rush, a 2011 gift from the artist to the MFA. This will be an inaugural showing at the Museum of this exciting piece, which will be installed frieze-like in its own space. Comprising 37 silhouetted painted portrait heads, the series depicts members of the New York cultural scene of the 1960s and ’70s. The exhibition celebrates the promised gift from the artist to the MFA of an archive of his editioned prints.
Exhibition: Fri Apr 13- Tue Jul 31
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
On April 11, 2012 the Boston Public Library and Mixit Print Studio will present reThink INK—an exhibition unprecedented in the history of printmaking in Boston. Artist printmakers from Mixit Print Studio exploit printmaking as a contemporary language spanning a full spectrum from hand-held miniatures to sculptural, multi- media installations.
Exhibition: Tue May 22- Sat Aug 18
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Boston, MA
Centering on Harvard’s collection of Johns’s signature “crosshatch” works of the 1970s, this exhibition explores the impact of print on his oeuvre. It examines “print” and “the press” in terms not only of printmaking and Johns’s celebrated experiments in that medium, but also in informational terms, tracing his frequent use of newspaper collage and its material, temporal, and political implications. Also featured is comparative material exploring Johns’s relationship to the history of printing.
Exhibition: Tue Feb 7- Mon Sep 3
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paper Zoo brings together prints, drawings, and photographs of the animal kingdom (including birds and marine creatures) dating from about 1500 to the present. Featuring some 30–40 works by Rembrandt, Audubon, Picasso, and others, this delightful exhibition highlights different artistic approaches to the same creatures and will appeal to children and adults alike.
Exhibition: Tue Mar 27- Sun Sep 23
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Edgelands has been defined as that uncertain and overlooked zone, neither city nor countryside, lingering on the urban edge. George Shaw’s series, Twelve Short Walks, 2005, is drawn from revisited scenes of his childhood on the Tile Hill council estate in the suburbs of Coventry. Michael Landy’s Nourishment, 2002, features life-sized images of weeds, or ‘treet-flowers’ - the overlooked and neglected vegetation of Edgelands.
Exhibition: Thu Feb 2- Sun Sep 23
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The exhibition will show approximately 100 prints from the permanent collection, by artists including Bonnard, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec. This exhibition marks the publication of the first major study of the museum’s print collection, Printmaking in Paris. The rage for prints at the fin de siècle.
Exhibition: Tue Apr 3- Sun Oct 7
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Focusing on key objects ranging in date from the 15th to the 21st centuries, this exhibition will feature a selection of some of the Fitzwilliam’s most spectacular prints, and give visitors an insight into the extraordinary breadth of the collection. Works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, will hang alongside prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.
Exhibition: Sat Feb 18- Sun Oct 28
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
Edouard Manet’s friend, the poet Charles Baudelaire, described black as the color of the nineteenth century. Manet was a master in the use of black, asserting his bold and subtle imprint on a range of subjects, from exotic Spanish dancers to the horses and spectators at a thrilling Paris racetrack. This exhibition celebrates Manet’s brilliant achievements as a graphic artist. Known as the painter of modern life and the father of Impressionism, Manet was also an exceptionally gifted printmaker and draftsman, among the most daring and innovative of the nineteenth century.
Drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection and featuring a selection of some 50 prints and drawings by Manet and related artists—including Rembrandt and Degas—the exhibition spans a variety of subjects, techniques, and styles from throughout Manet’s career.
Exhibition: Sat Mar 24- Mon Dec 31
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
A fascination for all things Japanese swept the United States in the period around 1900. An influx of Japanese goods and emissaries into America sparked a wave of interest in a foreign culture once seen as impossibly remote. Artists and collectors gathered Japanese objects, studied Japanese traditions, and integrated Japanese styles and techniques into their own work. The Allure of Japan celebrates this cultural moment with a rich display of rarely exhibited American prints, posters, watercolors, and decorative arts complemented by a selection from the Museum’s renowned Japanese collections.
Exhibition: Wed Aug 17- Sun Jul 1
University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA
American artist Gerry Bergstein juxtaposes images in his work to illustrate alternative universes and apocalyptic visions. Employing an encyclopedia of intaglio techniques, Apex includes etching, aquatint, lift ground, spit bite, drypoint, scraping, burnishing, and chine collé.
Inspired by drawings of wave patterns and cloud formations in the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519), this image typifies Bergstein’s concerns of the duality inherent in life and death, growth and decay.
The seven stages demonstrate the choices the artist made before reaching the final version that he approved for printing the edition. The image progresses from a graphite drawing to a black etching to a color print, with increasing linear complexity.
Bergstein describes his work as a contrast between “the awesome and the trivial, the high and the low, the manic and the melancholic, using sources from Brueghel to the Simpsons.” Throughout his career he has made prints, paintings, and mixed media works featuring collage and photographic assemblage, all of which depict imagery that borders on visual chaos.
Exhibition: Sat Jan 28- Sun Jul 1
de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
The original objective of Los Angeles–based print workshop Gemini G.E.L. was to print and publish prints. During its first decade, however, collaborations with visiting Pop artists such as Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg spurred the workshop into dimensions previously unexplored. In fact, it was Oldenburg’s ideas for Profile Airflow (1969), a color lithograph encased in molded plastic, that encouraged Gemini to expand its publishing parameters to include small-scale, editioned sculptures called multiples.
The multiples format provided an opportunity for artists to break free from the expectations of previous art movements, such as Abstract Expressionism, which promoted the idea of the physical “trace” of the artist. Attracted to Pop Art’s machine aesthetic, artists were also intrigued by the format’s limitless production possibilities, which made multiples an art form theoretically accessible to all. In reality, however, multiples production was not quite as seamless as its proponents supposed, and the price often proved prohibitive for the mass market.
The collaborative and experimental spirit artists experienced at Gemini led to innovative applications of industrial technologies to both multiples and traditional prints. This exhibition showcases a selection of prints and multiples published during this exploratory period in the workshop’s history.
Exhibition: Thu May 10- Sun Jul 8
Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
With a catalogue essay by Roberta Waddell, a renowned print expert and former Curator of Prints at the New York Public Library, the catalogue and exhibition feature new works created by recipients of the Printshop’s Special Editions and Publishing Residencies: Hong Seon Jang, Jennie C. Jones, Darina Karpov, and David Kramer, and Enoc Perez.
Exhibition: Thu May 31- Fri Jul 13
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
SCREW YOU. , curated by David Platzker of Specific Object, shines a light on the intersection of counter culture publishing, tabloid pornography and the art world which occurred in the creatively fertile years of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Exhibition: Fri May 4- Sun Jul 15
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany
Exhibition: Thu May 24- Fri Jul 27
International Print Center New York, New York, NY
New Prints 2012/Summer - Selected by Shahzia Sikander is the forty-second presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY several times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. An illustrated brochure, including an interview with Ms. Sikander, will accompany the exhibition.
Exhibition: Sat Apr 28- Sun Jul 29
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
Alex Katz (b. 1927), known for his bold, hard-edged figurative paintings and prints, is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation. The MFA’s exhibition “Alex Katz Prints,” based on an exhibition organized by the Albertina Graphic Collection, Vienna, surveys his career from the sixties to the present with approximately 150 works: prints, unique and editioned cutouts on aluminum, and illustrated books, as well as paintings and drawings from the MFA’s collection. Katz depicts family members, art-world friends, and Maine landscapes with a cool detachment and a seductive elegance, while walking a tightrope between traditional figuration and pure abstraction. His portraits are among the most recognizable images in contemporary art. The artist’s model and muse for half a century has been his wife, Ada. Images of her in various guises will be on view along with portraits of prominent figures from New York’s art, dance, and poetry worlds. A focal point of the exhibition will be the unique series of painted life-size cutout heads on aluminum, Rush, a 2011 gift from the artist to the MFA. This will be an inaugural showing at the Museum of this exciting piece, which will be installed frieze-like in its own space. Comprising 37 silhouetted painted portrait heads, the series depicts members of the New York cultural scene of the 1960s and ’70s. The exhibition celebrates the promised gift from the artist to the MFA of an archive of his editioned prints.
Exhibition: Fri Apr 13- Tue Jul 31
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
On April 11, 2012 the Boston Public Library and Mixit Print Studio will present reThink INK—an exhibition unprecedented in the history of printmaking in Boston. Artist printmakers from Mixit Print Studio exploit printmaking as a contemporary language spanning a full spectrum from hand-held miniatures to sculptural, multi- media installations.
Exhibition: Tue May 22- Sat Aug 18
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Boston, MA
Centering on Harvard’s collection of Johns’s signature “crosshatch” works of the 1970s, this exhibition explores the impact of print on his oeuvre. It examines “print” and “the press” in terms not only of printmaking and Johns’s celebrated experiments in that medium, but also in informational terms, tracing his frequent use of newspaper collage and its material, temporal, and political implications. Also featured is comparative material exploring Johns’s relationship to the history of printing.
Exhibition: Tue Feb 7- Mon Sep 3
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paper Zoo brings together prints, drawings, and photographs of the animal kingdom (including birds and marine creatures) dating from about 1500 to the present. Featuring some 30–40 works by Rembrandt, Audubon, Picasso, and others, this delightful exhibition highlights different artistic approaches to the same creatures and will appeal to children and adults alike.
Exhibition: Tue Mar 27- Sun Sep 23
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Edgelands has been defined as that uncertain and overlooked zone, neither city nor countryside, lingering on the urban edge. George Shaw’s series, Twelve Short Walks, 2005, is drawn from revisited scenes of his childhood on the Tile Hill council estate in the suburbs of Coventry. Michael Landy’s Nourishment, 2002, features life-sized images of weeds, or ‘treet-flowers’ - the overlooked and neglected vegetation of Edgelands.
Exhibition: Thu Feb 2- Sun Sep 23
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The exhibition will show approximately 100 prints from the permanent collection, by artists including Bonnard, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec. This exhibition marks the publication of the first major study of the museum’s print collection, Printmaking in Paris. The rage for prints at the fin de siècle.
Exhibition: Tue Apr 3- Sun Oct 7
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Focusing on key objects ranging in date from the 15th to the 21st centuries, this exhibition will feature a selection of some of the Fitzwilliam’s most spectacular prints, and give visitors an insight into the extraordinary breadth of the collection. Works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, will hang alongside prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.
Exhibition: Sat Feb 18- Sun Oct 28
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
Edouard Manet’s friend, the poet Charles Baudelaire, described black as the color of the nineteenth century. Manet was a master in the use of black, asserting his bold and subtle imprint on a range of subjects, from exotic Spanish dancers to the horses and spectators at a thrilling Paris racetrack. This exhibition celebrates Manet’s brilliant achievements as a graphic artist. Known as the painter of modern life and the father of Impressionism, Manet was also an exceptionally gifted printmaker and draftsman, among the most daring and innovative of the nineteenth century.
Drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection and featuring a selection of some 50 prints and drawings by Manet and related artists—including Rembrandt and Degas—the exhibition spans a variety of subjects, techniques, and styles from throughout Manet’s career.
Exhibition: Sat Mar 24- Mon Dec 31
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
A fascination for all things Japanese swept the United States in the period around 1900. An influx of Japanese goods and emissaries into America sparked a wave of interest in a foreign culture once seen as impossibly remote. Artists and collectors gathered Japanese objects, studied Japanese traditions, and integrated Japanese styles and techniques into their own work. The Allure of Japan celebrates this cultural moment with a rich display of rarely exhibited American prints, posters, watercolors, and decorative arts complemented by a selection from the Museum’s renowned Japanese collections.
Exhibition: Tue May 22- Sat Aug 18
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Boston, MA
Centering on Harvard’s collection of Johns’s signature “crosshatch” works of the 1970s, this exhibition explores the impact of print on his oeuvre. It examines “print” and “the press” in terms not only of printmaking and Johns’s celebrated experiments in that medium, but also in informational terms, tracing his frequent use of newspaper collage and its material, temporal, and political implications. Also featured is comparative material exploring Johns’s relationship to the history of printing.
Exhibition: Tue Feb 7- Mon Sep 3
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paper Zoo brings together prints, drawings, and photographs of the animal kingdom (including birds and marine creatures) dating from about 1500 to the present. Featuring some 30–40 works by Rembrandt, Audubon, Picasso, and others, this delightful exhibition highlights different artistic approaches to the same creatures and will appeal to children and adults alike.
Exhibition: Tue Mar 27- Sun Sep 23
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Edgelands has been defined as that uncertain and overlooked zone, neither city nor countryside, lingering on the urban edge. George Shaw’s series, Twelve Short Walks, 2005, is drawn from revisited scenes of his childhood on the Tile Hill council estate in the suburbs of Coventry. Michael Landy’s Nourishment, 2002, features life-sized images of weeds, or ‘treet-flowers’ - the overlooked and neglected vegetation of Edgelands.
Exhibition: Thu Feb 2- Sun Sep 23
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The exhibition will show approximately 100 prints from the permanent collection, by artists including Bonnard, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec. This exhibition marks the publication of the first major study of the museum’s print collection, Printmaking in Paris. The rage for prints at the fin de siècle.
Exhibition: Tue Apr 3- Sun Oct 7
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Focusing on key objects ranging in date from the 15th to the 21st centuries, this exhibition will feature a selection of some of the Fitzwilliam’s most spectacular prints, and give visitors an insight into the extraordinary breadth of the collection. Works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, will hang alongside prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.
Exhibition: Sat Feb 18- Sun Oct 28
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
Edouard Manet’s friend, the poet Charles Baudelaire, described black as the color of the nineteenth century. Manet was a master in the use of black, asserting his bold and subtle imprint on a range of subjects, from exotic Spanish dancers to the horses and spectators at a thrilling Paris racetrack. This exhibition celebrates Manet’s brilliant achievements as a graphic artist. Known as the painter of modern life and the father of Impressionism, Manet was also an exceptionally gifted printmaker and draftsman, among the most daring and innovative of the nineteenth century.
Drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection and featuring a selection of some 50 prints and drawings by Manet and related artists—including Rembrandt and Degas—the exhibition spans a variety of subjects, techniques, and styles from throughout Manet’s career.
Exhibition: Sat Mar 24- Mon Dec 31
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
A fascination for all things Japanese swept the United States in the period around 1900. An influx of Japanese goods and emissaries into America sparked a wave of interest in a foreign culture once seen as impossibly remote. Artists and collectors gathered Japanese objects, studied Japanese traditions, and integrated Japanese styles and techniques into their own work. The Allure of Japan celebrates this cultural moment with a rich display of rarely exhibited American prints, posters, watercolors, and decorative arts complemented by a selection from the Museum’s renowned Japanese collections.
Exhibition: Tue Feb 7- Mon Sep 3
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paper Zoo brings together prints, drawings, and photographs of the animal kingdom (including birds and marine creatures) dating from about 1500 to the present. Featuring some 30–40 works by Rembrandt, Audubon, Picasso, and others, this delightful exhibition highlights different artistic approaches to the same creatures and will appeal to children and adults alike.
Exhibition: Tue Mar 27- Sun Sep 23
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Edgelands has been defined as that uncertain and overlooked zone, neither city nor countryside, lingering on the urban edge. George Shaw’s series, Twelve Short Walks, 2005, is drawn from revisited scenes of his childhood on the Tile Hill council estate in the suburbs of Coventry. Michael Landy’s Nourishment, 2002, features life-sized images of weeds, or ‘treet-flowers’ - the overlooked and neglected vegetation of Edgelands.
Exhibition: Thu Feb 2- Sun Sep 23
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The exhibition will show approximately 100 prints from the permanent collection, by artists including Bonnard, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec. This exhibition marks the publication of the first major study of the museum’s print collection, Printmaking in Paris. The rage for prints at the fin de siècle.
Exhibition: Fri Sep 14- Sun Dec 9
Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT
Andrew Raftery’s Open House is series of engravings representing a sequence of moments during a real estate open house. This body of work first made a splash about five or six years ago and has been much lauded by many in the art world. The Open House series is an unabashed tour de force.
Exhibition: Sun Sep 30- Sun Dec 30
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles/ CA
The Hammer Museum presents the first retrospective of printmaker and sculptor Zarina, featuring approximately 60 works dating from 1961 to the present. Zarina Hashmi, who chooses to be referred to simply by her first name, was born in Aligarh, India, in 1937 and has lived and worked in New York for the past 35 years. Paper is central to her practice, both as a surface to work on and as a material with its own properties and history. Works in the exhibition range from woodcuts to three-dimensional casts in paper pulp. Zarina’s vocabulary is minimal, yet rich in associations with her life and the themes of dispossession and exile that have marked it. The concept of home— whether personal, geographic, national, spiritual, or familial—resonates throughout her oeuvre.
Exhibition: Tue Apr 3- Sun Oct 7
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Focusing on key objects ranging in date from the 15th to the 21st centuries, this exhibition will feature a selection of some of the Fitzwilliam’s most spectacular prints, and give visitors an insight into the extraordinary breadth of the collection. Works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, will hang alongside prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.
Exhibition: Sat Feb 18- Sun Oct 28
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
Edouard Manet’s friend, the poet Charles Baudelaire, described black as the color of the nineteenth century. Manet was a master in the use of black, asserting his bold and subtle imprint on a range of subjects, from exotic Spanish dancers to the horses and spectators at a thrilling Paris racetrack. This exhibition celebrates Manet’s brilliant achievements as a graphic artist. Known as the painter of modern life and the father of Impressionism, Manet was also an exceptionally gifted printmaker and draftsman, among the most daring and innovative of the nineteenth century.
Drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection and featuring a selection of some 50 prints and drawings by Manet and related artists—including Rembrandt and Degas—the exhibition spans a variety of subjects, techniques, and styles from throughout Manet’s career.
Exhibition: Sat Mar 24- Mon Dec 31
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
A fascination for all things Japanese swept the United States in the period around 1900. An influx of Japanese goods and emissaries into America sparked a wave of interest in a foreign culture once seen as impossibly remote. Artists and collectors gathered Japanese objects, studied Japanese traditions, and integrated Japanese styles and techniques into their own work. The Allure of Japan celebrates this cultural moment with a rich display of rarely exhibited American prints, posters, watercolors, and decorative arts complemented by a selection from the Museum’s renowned Japanese collections.
Exhibition: Tue Apr 3- Sun Oct 7
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Focusing on key objects ranging in date from the 15th to the 21st centuries, this exhibition will feature a selection of some of the Fitzwilliam’s most spectacular prints, and give visitors an insight into the extraordinary breadth of the collection. Works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, will hang alongside prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.
Exhibition: Sat Feb 18- Sun Oct 28
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
Edouard Manet’s friend, the poet Charles Baudelaire, described black as the color of the nineteenth century. Manet was a master in the use of black, asserting his bold and subtle imprint on a range of subjects, from exotic Spanish dancers to the horses and spectators at a thrilling Paris racetrack. This exhibition celebrates Manet’s brilliant achievements as a graphic artist. Known as the painter of modern life and the father of Impressionism, Manet was also an exceptionally gifted printmaker and draftsman, among the most daring and innovative of the nineteenth century.
Drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection and featuring a selection of some 50 prints and drawings by Manet and related artists—including Rembrandt and Degas—the exhibition spans a variety of subjects, techniques, and styles from throughout Manet’s career.
Exhibition: Fri Sep 14- Sun Dec 9
Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT
Andrew Raftery’s Open House is series of engravings representing a sequence of moments during a real estate open house. This body of work first made a splash about five or six years ago and has been much lauded by many in the art world. The Open House series is an unabashed tour de force.
Exhibition: Sun Sep 30- Sun Dec 30
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles/ CA
The Hammer Museum presents the first retrospective of printmaker and sculptor Zarina, featuring approximately 60 works dating from 1961 to the present. Zarina Hashmi, who chooses to be referred to simply by her first name, was born in Aligarh, India, in 1937 and has lived and worked in New York for the past 35 years. Paper is central to her practice, both as a surface to work on and as a material with its own properties and history. Works in the exhibition range from woodcuts to three-dimensional casts in paper pulp. Zarina’s vocabulary is minimal, yet rich in associations with her life and the themes of dispossession and exile that have marked it. The concept of home— whether personal, geographic, national, spiritual, or familial—resonates throughout her oeuvre.
Exhibition: Sat Mar 24- Mon Dec 31
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/ MA
A fascination for all things Japanese swept the United States in the period around 1900. An influx of Japanese goods and emissaries into America sparked a wave of interest in a foreign culture once seen as impossibly remote. Artists and collectors gathered Japanese objects, studied Japanese traditions, and integrated Japanese styles and techniques into their own work. The Allure of Japan celebrates this cultural moment with a rich display of rarely exhibited American prints, posters, watercolors, and decorative arts complemented by a selection from the Museum’s renowned Japanese collections.
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