the alchemy of intaglio

IPCNY New Prints 2008

One big YEAH! for Brian Lynch, who's print has been selected by the International Print Center New Prints 2008! A fine artist and great print freak! For more Lynch prints, see www.lynchstudio.com

Lucian Frued

Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings (NOW at the MOMA)
December 16, 2007–March 10, 2008

"An etching needle beats a brush at detailing the insults of carnal fact to egoist fancy."
~Peter Schjeldahl (The New Yorker)

There are no coincidences in NY (Gracefully)

Some radical...

This Exhibition was so amazing, both of the artists are phenomenal and they are referencing Jorge Luis Borges and Buckminster Fuller, two of the most amazing poets!!! I am printing Matthew's print the last couple weeks and his work is so inspiring on so many levels!

Peter Blum Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition Huma Bhabha and Matthew Day Jackson, Sculptures and New Print Editions, at Peter Blum SoHo.

Huma Bhabha’s portfolio, Reconstructions, consists of sixteen photogravures and two woodblock prints. In Reconstructions, Bhabha draws colossal figures, feet, or other forms over photographs of landscapes littered with abandoned foundations that she took in her native Pakistan. In Reconstructions, as with her other works, Bhabha references figurative connections to the landscape, ancient structures, religion, time, and decay.

Matthew Day Jackson has created three new print projects from the Dymaxion Series, a reference to Buckminster Fuller’s inventions. Das Wochenendhaus is an installation of sixteen prints of multiple techniques, which together comment on various utopian visions in America’s history. In the triptych Missing Link (Lady Liberty), Jackson utilizes a found poster illustrating Degas’ dancer, while also referencing imagery by Goya and Hiroshige. Jackson’s portrait of Buckminster Fuller, entitled Bucky (ROYGBV), pays homage to the visionary thinker shown before his geodesic dome.

New York Print Week

There is one week is this great city in which you can see any print you wish. Among my favorites were Kathe Kollowitz, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Leonard Bakin, Robert Longo, Helen Frankenthaler, and George Bellows. I went to everything from the huge fair at the Amory on Park Av. where all the stuffy collectors hang out, and then I enjoyed a rockin' party at Prints Gone Wild hosted by Cannonball Press. I have been cranking out more huge prints for Nicola's installations, the picture is the one we installed at the Tandem Press booth. I also participated in a rad print show at Brian Lynch's stdio on 47th Street. After a beautiful and busy week of prints I started working as printer for The Lower Est Side Print Shop. I am the official etching printer and print all the intaglio editions they need. I'm in print heaven.

Nicola Lopez

I have lived in New York for two months, I have tried to be alive in New York for the majority of that time. I spending my days in the beautiful rooftop studio of Nicola Lopez. I met her while she was in residence at HuiPress Publications in Maui, Hawaii. She is a printmaker by nature, and manages to transform her very large scale prints into installations. We recently installed one of her installations at P.S. 1 MOMA, here in New York. Nicola teaches printmaking at Cooper Union College, and Bard University, and Graduated from Columbia University. I have included one of my favorite installations of hers, and she also has a great website, if you would like to see more of her work, nicolalopez.com. While Nicola has at HuiPress in June 2007, we worked on a brillant 9 foot etching composed of five plates, and you will have to wait to see it when it's released in 2008! Nicola will also be showing work at the Franklin Arts Works, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. That exhibition opens November 17th, 2007 and will be on view for two months.