Recommended Reading for the Print-Curious PART I

By Susan Tallman

The product of the author’s decades in the print room of the British Museum, and of a habitually curious mind, Griffiths’ impeccable, erudite book treats Read More

Art Intelligence: Jan Svenungsson on Making and Thinking

By Susan Tallman

Hard to categorize, this deft book by the Swedish artist Jan Svenungsson should be read by everyone involved with contemporary prints, whether as makers or Read More

Art Triage: Eric Avery and Adam DelMarcelle Take On the Opioid Crisis

By Susan Tallman

Adam DelMarcelle, Tools for Breathing (2018), series of six screenprints, 20 x 16 inches, and Eric Avery, Emergency Response (2018), six linocuts with stenciled spraypaint, 16 x 20 inches. Editions of 30. Printed and published by the artists.

The night is beautiful, the sky a deep crepuscular blue, the lights in the farm building glow a homey yellow, but on the silo a bright white image looms beautiful and awful: Read More

On Watching the Detectives

By Susan Tallman

This is Art in Print’s eighth annual New Editions issue. The artists who appear here were selected by nine different writers, and range from renowned (Jasper Johns, Terry Winters, Francesco Clemente) to emerging (Qiaoyi Shi, Shivangi Ladha). The youngest is in her mid-20s, the oldest in her mid-90s. Read More

Jane Kent and Major Jackson Winter / Endless (2018)

By Susan Tallman

What does time look like?” Jane Kent posed the question as she talked about drawing in response to two poems by Major Jackson. One of those poems, “Winter,” formed the starting Read More

Edge of Visibility

By Susan Tallman

A Guide to the Exhibition

On View 4 October – 19 December, 2018

International Print Read More

All Cloudy, Except One Large Opening…The Skies of Alexander Cozens (1717–1786)

By Susan Tallman

Alexander Cozens, spread from A new method of assisting the invention in drawing original compositions of landscape (London: A. Cozens and J. Dodsley, 1785). Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

The 18th-century English landscape painter and drawing master Alexander Cozens is known to history as the “blot man” because of his 1785 publication, A new method of assisting the invention in drawing original compositions of landscape Read More

Richter and Polke

By Susan Tallman

Gerhard Richter, Hund (Dog) (1965), screenprint, 64.9 x 49.9 cm. Image courtesy Museum Folkwang, Essen.

I don’t mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing, I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses…My own relationship to reality… Read More