AN INT E R NAT I O NA L E XH IB I T I O N F R OM ME MBE R S OF T H E C E N T E R F O R C O N T E M P O R A R Y P R I N T M A K I N G
HOR IZONS FEBRUARY 2016 \ Cork Printmakers \ Cork, Ireland
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JUNE 2016 \ Fyns Grafiske Vaerksted \ Odense, Denmark
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HOR IZONS
An International Exhibition from Members of the Center for Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition Venues and Dates:
February 2016 Cork Printmakers CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery Wandesford Quay, Cork, Ireland
June 2016 Fyns Grafiske Vaerksted Hans Jensens Straede 18 5000 Odense, Denmark
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: Horizon often references pure landscape—the boundary between sky and earth or sea—frequently represented by a horizontal line. Horizon can signify the limits between our vision and our understanding; the border between the familiar and the unknown; the contrast of the near and the far—the impossible to see. Horizons explores representations both physical and perceptual. Selected Artists: Christine Aaron Linda Adato Frances Ashforth Betty Ball
Shirley Bernstein Jane Cooper Claudia Cron William Evertson
Deborah Freedman Joan Lane Nancy McTague-Stock Joan Potkay
Tim Ross Alan Singer Karen Vogel Deborah Weiss
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WIDENING HORIZONS Faye Hirsch, Associate Professor and MFA Coordinator, School of Art + Design, Purchase College, SUNY In his important 2006 essay “Printmaking: A Colony of the Arts,” Luis Camnitzer warned printmaking artists about the dangers of a “colonial” mentality bred of “keeping our heads in the acid tray.” Torn himself between “wanting to remain within the craft of printmaking and opposing those who focus on the craft,” Camnitzer advised that these contradictory impulses be held in balance, since “too much hate for the craft kills the work of art and too much love kills the artist.”¹ I had only JPGs to look at in judging this year’s “Horizons” competition and therefore relied on the
force of the images alone. I knew nothing of the artists, apart from their being members of the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, a vital, community-based workshop in Norwalk, Connecticut. Nor could I examine the surface of the submissions up close. One can be so seduced by the craft of printmaking that it is possible to overlook a larger network of ties to art history and other forces shaping the work. Artists must always look beyond their medium and craft to sustain a viable practice. Still, one can sense a real mastery of the woodcut medium in the stupendous skies occupying the pre-
ponderance of Shirley Bernstein’s Peeking Pink, Cloudy Ceiling and Eye Cloud or in the witty japonisme of William Evertson’s Imagine You, Zheng He’s Stowaway and Bowl of Cherries. At the same time, there is the pleasure of recognition—of a Western lineage stretching to the rose-tinted putti-filled heavens of Tiepolo (Bernstein), or an Eastern heritage encompassing the skewed perspectives and gradated colors, not to mention the charming humor, of a Hokusai or Hiroshige (Evertson). From psychedelic album covers (Tim Ross) to Surrealist landscapes (Alan Singer) and classic scenes
drawn from real-life observation (Betty Ball), the works in this exhibition cover a wide range of influences and habits. Frances Ashforth’s near-abstract sublime landscapes lie in the serial tradition of someone quite outside the field—the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto— while, using the photograph as a base, Claudia Cron recalls Degas’s moody monotypes. These 15 artists look beyond the colony—beyond the niceties of craft and the border-hemmed province of printmaking—as they balance between the seductions of their medium and a larger practice that offers authentic expression its full outlet.
¹ Luis Camnitzer, Printmaking: “A Colony of the Arts” (2006), reprinted in The Graphic Unconscious, Philadelphia, Philagrafika, 2010, pp. 106-07.
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Christine Aaron
Whisper, 2013 18” x 18” Lithographic monoprint $700.
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Presence, 2013 18” x 18” Lithographic monoprint $700.
Linda Adato
The Cyclist, 2013 8.75” x 11.75” Two plate color etching and soft ground $400
Hell Gate Bridge, 2007 7.25” x 23.75” Color etching, aquatint and soft ground $450
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Frances Ashforth
Grayscape 1, 2014 22” x 22’’ Waterbased monotype $800
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Grayscape 2, 2014 22” x 22’’ Waterbased monotype $800
Betty Ball
Twilight White River No. 1, 2014 18” x 18” Monotype $700
Twilight White River No. 5, 2014 18” x 18” Monotype $700
Coastal Pond No. 1, 2014 10” x 14” Monotype $400
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Shirley Bernstein
Peeking Pink, 2015 10” x 22” Reduction color woodcut $350
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Cloudy Ceiling, 2015 10” x 22” Reduction color woodcut $350
Eye Cloud, 2014 10” x 22” Reduction color woodcut $350
Jane Cooper
Muir IV, 2015 17.5” x 23” Silk aquatint monotype $700
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Claudia Cron
Sayst #3, 2015 16” x 22” Paper Lithograph $350
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Stock, 2015 22” x 25” Paper Lithographic w color pencil $450
Eternize #2, 2015 6” x 16” Paper Lithographic $300
William Everston
Imagine You, 2013 16” x 21.5” Woodcut $550
Zheng He’s Stowaway, 2013 13” x 19” Woodcut $550
Bowl of Cherries, 2014 17” x 24” Woodcut $550
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Deborah Freedman
Goodnite Irene 7, 2012 22� x 30� Monoprint $1,700
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Joan Lane
Toxic Legacy, 2013, 9” x 12” Woodcut $350
Metropolitan Madness, 2013 8” x 10” Woodcut $350
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Nancy McTague Stock
Navigating Stones, 2015, 4” x 6” Drypoint with handcoloring $1,000
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Joan Potkay
Twilight Mauve, 2012 18” x 20” Monotype $800
Reflected Rose, 2012 18” x 20” Monotype $800
Silver Storm, 2012 18” x 20” Monotype $800
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Tim Ross
Shark in the Water, 2015 16.5” x 12” Digital print $275
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Sunset, 2015 17.75” x 10” Digital print $275
Sunset with NYC, 2015, 17.5” x 12” Digital print $275
Alan Singer
Crystal Monument, 2011 12.5� x 14� Transfer monoprint $500
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Karen Vogel
Remnants of what Remains, 2015 22” x 30” Monotype $500
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Ozymandius, 2015 22” x 30” Monotype $500
Deborah Weis
New Territory / Amber, 2015 18” x18” Monotype w relief textures $600
New Terrain / Jade, 2015 16” x 19” Monotype $600
New Territory / Cloud Path, 2015, 18” x 18” Monotype w relief textures $600
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