FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 22, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC: The Old Print Gallery is pleased to announce its new summer show Ross/Romano. The show will open on April 19 and stay on view until July 13, 2013. The exhibit features the work of John Ross and Clare Romano, internationally known printmakers, teachers, and husband and wife creative duo. Their prints sample architecture, waterways, and canyon vistas- a visual record of their travels to Italy and the Southwest. Working in the medium of collagraphy and woodcuts, prints by Ross and Romano marry texture and color in a beautiful and skillfully layered way. A free nighttime reception will be held on Friday, April 19, 2013 from 5-8pm at the Old Print Gallery, to celebrate the show’s opening. Ross and Romano’s book ''The Complete Printmaker'', first published in 1972, has been called the definitive textbook on printmaking, and is still in use today at universities and art schools. The prints selected for this show will heavily showcase the duo’s talent and expertise at collagraphy- a true printing hybrid that involves collage applied to a plate, printed by intaglio or relief methods. Romano’s canyon scenes weave together textural ribbons of dusty rose and bright orange. Her abstract bands evoke sky, land, and water, harmoniously flowing into one another. In contrast, Ross builds his compositions with interlocking, architectural shapes, resulting in layered city views. Blending the gothic archways and vaults of Venice with the stark skyscrapers of New York, Ross creates fantastical urban landscapes that seem right out of Metropolis. John Ross is a painter, printmaker, book artist and Professor of Art. He has served as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists, and is active in a number of art organizations. He printed and illustrated many books with original prints. He has had over sixty one-artist shows and is represented in many museum collections. Ross studied at Cooper Union School of Art, Parson School of Design, École des Beaux-Arts, New School for Social Research, Columbia University, and Istituto Statale d'Arte in Italy. He taught printmaking at the New School for over fifty years and has been a professor of art Manhattanville College.
Clare Romano was born in Palisades, New Jersey, in 1922. She studied at Cooper Union training as a painter. Her first prints were lithographs produced at Robert Blackburn’s workshop in 1949; but she has worked in many different mediums. She is best known for her stunning woodcuts and for her collagraphs. She is a noted educator, teaching generations of artists printmaking at the New School, Pratt Graphics Center and Pratt Institute. Throughout her career she has received numerous awards and has had many one artist shows. Her work is in museums across the United States and Europe. About The Old Print Gallery: Established in 1971, and known for its wide selection of antique prints and maps, in the last six years The Old Print Gallery has expanded into the world of contemporary printmaking. The gallery was transformed to create space to showcase new work by regional artists, as well as local printmakers from the Washington Printmakers Gallery. The Old Print Gallery hosts printmaking workshops and demonstrations and publishes informative showcases, and has established itself as a source of inspiration for print artists, enthusiasts, and the general public. Image Credit: (Left) Voyage. By John Ross. Collagraph, undated. Ed. 75. (Right) Spanish Hills. [Nevada.] By Clare Romano. Collagraph, undated. Artist's proof.
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