The Brodsky Center for Printmaking and Papermaking will be leaving Rutgers for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Established in 1986 as the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, it was renamed in honor of its founder the artist and educator Judith Brodsky. Now a member of PAFA’s Contemporary Collections Committee, Brodsky was […]
The Sharkive—more than 40 years of prints and related materials produced with master printer Bud Shark at Shark’s Ink—has been acquired by the University of Colorado Art Museum in Boulder. The collection includes more than 700 signed prints by major contemporary artists such as Enrique Chagoya, Red Grooms, John Buck, Robert Kushner, Betty Woodman and […]
The Fred Sandback archive has launched an online catalogue providing comprehensive documentation of the late artist’s graphic work, produced over the course of four decades. More than 200 works are included, with detailed information and new photography. The broader website includes exhibition news; complete texts and interviews by and with Sandback; a history of exhibitions […]
In the wake of the 2016 election, students at the Rhode Island School of Design created a set of prints to raise money for the ACLU, Black Lives Matter, CAIR, Make the Road NY, Planned Parenthood and Sane Energy Project. The project raised $7,529. A second round of Prints For Protest have now been launched, […]
Gillian Ayres, one of Britain’s leading abstract painter-printmakers, died on 11 April, at the age of 88. Born in London, she exhibited with Young Contemporaries in 1949, with the London Group in 1951, and was included in the Whitechapel Art Gallery’s important 1963 exhibition “British Painting in the 60s.” She continued to exhibit actively throughout […]
The Watershed Center for Fine Art Publishing and Research at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) recently concluded its first semester-long artist residency with Storm Tharp. This formalizes years of publishing print editions in collaboration with visiting artists such as Eli Subrack (Assume Vivid Astro Focus) and Regina Silveira as well as hosting professional printers […]