Ruth Asawa, Anni Albers, and others first experimented with printmaking at June Wayne’s Tamarind Lithography Workshop.
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Make Prints and Get Feedback at This Virtual Printmaking Summit
The three-day event includes tips on how to photograph your art, workshops on stencil-making, and much more.
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How Leo Steinberg Saw the Profound Importance of Prints Before Most
“If you’re going to do art history,” Steinberg declared, “you’d better know what your artists were looking at. And that has to include prints.”
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How Women Helped Revolutionize the Art of Printmaking
A new book examines the collective Atelier 17, whose members redefined beliefs about gender identity and artistic achievement in the 1940s and ’50s.
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Shaking Up Op Art
Takuji Hamanaka’s works seem to have been made by a mason who lives in a heightened state of consciousness.
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A Fresh Direction for Printmaking
Sarah Amos’s work may be labor-intensive, yet it conveys neither labor nor the consumption of time, but a meditative joy.
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Reflections on Aging, Identity, and Social Justice in Potent Prints
The dynamic curator Judith K. Brodsky makes a compelling case for the historical importance and profound expressions of printmaking.
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A Three-Day Event Wants to Make Printmaking More Accessible
Self Help Graphics & Art is hosting its second Printmaking Summit featuring workshops, talks, and demonstrations. Celebrated artist Alison Saar will be giving the keynote address.
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The Print Legacy of Louise Bourgeois Unfolds at MoMA
A new exhibition gathers some 300 works, including 265 prints, to show the increasingly central role printmaking played in Bourgeois’s practice through the decades.
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The Mysterious Experiments of Hercules Segers, a 17th-Century Art Radical
The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first major retrospective on the radically experimental 17th-century Dutch artist.
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A Printmaker’s Nonsensical Designs for an Absurd World
Ryan Standfest’s diagrams are sometimes fraught with Dadaist logic. They are instructions for unstructured outcomes, answers to questions no one has asked.
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The Whimsical Work of an Animal-Loving 19th-Century Printmaker
From portraits of his dog to Japanese motifs, these fine-lined images attest to the originality of Henri-Charles Guérard, who was one of the most respected printmakers of his time.