For those of you in NYC this weekend, or this month, there are two excellent exhibitions worth checking out.
Firstly, the Jon Rappleye prints that were in production all fall and spring, until this past weekend, are premiering in Jon’s current show at the Jeff Bailey Gallery this week. The opening was last night, but the show is up for a month.
Additionally, our very own May Yang had a print selected for the IPCNY New Prints 2009 exhibition (curated by Polly Apfelbaum!) which also opened this weekend.
More of May’s work is available on her website, and the list of other artists in the exhibition (albeit clumsily) are here!
Ok, so this is just awesome. Coolhunting visited Grafica Fidalga in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to do a poster run and meet the printers:
Please note how they create new type by laminating a cut plywood letterform to a second block to make it type-high. It’s particularly nice to see a production shop work through a print run; adding make-ready to a form, finding creative solutions to missing type (check out that % symbol) and fixing work-ups mid run with a hammer! A cursory google search seems to only identify their press as a 1929 German Letterpress – so extra credit to whomever can find the model and make. I can verify that it is a flatbed-cylinder press, akin to Babcock’s and Miehle’s early designs.
And while we’re on the subject of letterpress, wood type, and awesomeness, there is a new Wood Type Museum online, including photos and specimen-books, with a nice write-up by the folks at Hoefler & Frere-Jones.
After receiving numerous forwarded e-mails from students, staff, and friends that Jim Sherraden from Hatch Show Print would be in Baltimore with AIGA’s lecture circuit, I decided to give him a call. Within a matter of minutes, I not only had him on on the line, but he had agreed to come to MICA, talk, and PRINT with our students, all without the mention of money, housing, or any other logistics. He had a 4 hour window of time, and gave it all to us, unconditionally.
Jim gave us his whole afternoon, showed the students some new printing techniques, gave a small lecture on his own work, and brought along some fabulous cuts and images from the shop to print.
April 29 – May 23, 2009
Opening: Sunday, May 3, 2009: 2-5pm
@ Studio Gallery, 2108 R Street, NW. [DC]
This exhibition consists of landscape and plant forms in a several media including oils, watercolors, and prints ⎯ etchings, linoleum cuts, lithographs, and silkscreens. The subjects are drawn from the Dordogne, France and Cape Town, South Africa.
Dear students, majors, concentrators, and friends of the department,
Please come join the Printmaking Department tomorrow (that’s wednesday, April 8th) at 3PM in the Fox2 gallery for a CUPCAKE ONLY OPENING! The department is providing drinks, but if you are part of the department, we’d really like it if you could bring some CUPCAKES for our CUPCAKE OPENING!
The show is up for this week only. Thanks to everyone who helped with installation… It wouldn’t have happened without your help!
