Exhibitions/New Prints Program

International Print Center New York announces the thirteenth presentation of its New Prints Program from Thursday, June 24th through Friday, July 30th in its gallery at 526 West 26th Street, Room 824, in Chelsea. New Prints 2004/Summer is one of a series of juried exhibitions organized four times each season by IPCNY presenting current prints by artists at all stages of their careers.

With New Prints 2004/Summer, IPCNY continues its rotating presentations of contemporary artists' prints, establishing an ongoing exhibition venue for new work and a central source of information about artists working today in the medium of printmaking. For New Prints 2004/Summer, the Selections Committee (which changes for each New Prints exhibition) was comprised of the following members: Barbara Foshay-Miller, President, Site Santa Fe; Peter Nesbett, Editor, Art on Paper magazine and Co-Director of Triple Candie, a non-profit contemporary art space in Harlem, NYC; Andrew Raftery, artist and Printmaking Department Head, Rhode Island School of Design; Susan Sollins, Producer, Art 21; Sarah Thompson, book artist and Public Affairs Associate, Dia Center for the Arts, and Diane Villani, Publisher, Diane Villani Editions. Some seven hundred prints were submitted to IPCNY for this selections round for consideration by the jury.

A curatorial essay The Assemblage of Incomplete Parts into a Whole has been contributed by Peter Nesbett, Selections Committee member. Sandra Lang continues in her role as consultant to the program.

Consistent with the exhibitions that preceded it, New Prints 2004/Summer includes work from a range of presses and artists across the country. The committee selected fifty prints from thirty-seven artists. Thirty-four of the prints were self-published by the artist, coming from as far away as Hawaii and the far west, as well as Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Missouri and Ohio, among others. All prints selected for New Prints 2004/Summer were completed within the past year.

Techniques include classic etching and mezzotint, lithography, linocut, woodcut and silkscreen, plus examples of digital processes, solarplate intaglio and gum transfer monoprint. Beatriz Milhazes' Serpentina , a silkscreen from Durham Press, casts a vibrant palate of yellow, gold, orange and red into the gallery, while Jonathan Seliger's Fête Galante published by Dieu Donné is seasonal in its rendering of a three dimensional ice cream box in stenciled paper pulp. Lithographs include Jane Hammond's My Heavens!, described by Mr. Nesbett as "colorful renderings of fictitious constellations… of the artist's own making, her effort, in effect, to give form to the unfathomable" and Shadow Birds by independent artist Aijung Kim which floats overhead in the gallery.

The complete artists' list is as follows: Iona Rozeal Brown, Tom Burckhardt, Mark Calderon, Wei
Jane Chir, Gary Day, Candy Depew, Jean A. Dibble, Tim Dooley, Eduardo Fausti, Kristin Gregory,
Jane Hammond, John Himmelfarb, Keiko Kamata, Aijung Kim, Amanda Knowles, Margaret
Lanzetta, Marc Lepson, Lin Lin, Kara Maria, Beatriz Milhazes, Atsuko Okamoto, Adam Pitt, Ellen
Price, Melodie Provenzano, Jeera Rattanangkoon, Lisa Reddig, Katia Santibanez, Jonathan Seliger,
Maryanne Ellison Simmons, Mike Stephens, David Storey, Fulvio Tomasi, Yeachin Tsai, Richard
Tuttle, Carol Wax, Betty Woodman, Jennifer Yorke

With rare exception, prints included in IPCNY's New Prints shows are for sale. IPCNY refers potential purchasers directly to the artist, publisher or gallery which supplying the print. IPCNY requires no commission on sales.

International Print Center New York is a non-profit institution founded to promote the greater appreciation and understanding of the fine art print worldwide. Through innovative programming, it fosters a climate for the enjoyment, examination and serious study of artists' prints-from the old master to the contemporary. IPCNY offers its members a program of workshop and gallery visits, and has established an informational website and Information Desk available to the public at the gallery. IPCNY depends upon public and private donations to support its programs.

The New Prints Program is funded in part with a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; The New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The gallery is located in Chelsea on 26th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. Hours are 12- 6 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday. July hours are 12-6 Monday-Friday. For additional information, call (212) 989-5090 or visit IPCNY's website www.ipcny.org. New Prints 2004/Summer will be posted and documented on the site together with prior exhibitions presented by IPCNY.

Image credit: Beatriz Milhazes, Serpentina, 2003, Silkscreen, 52 x 52 inches, Published by Durham Press, Inc., PA