Potpourri Edition by Polly Apfelbaum

Dogwood Potpourri, 2012, 32 x 32 1/2 inches, edition of 25,

Love Potpourri, 2012, 32 x 32 1/2 inches, edition of 25

Wave Potpourri, 2012, 32 x 32 1/2 inches, edition of 25

Rainbow Potpourri, 2012, 32 x 32 1/2 inches, edition of 25

Durham Press is pleased to release 4 new prints by Polly Apfelbaum. The prints encompass Polly’s 4 printing languages- Flowers= Love, Circles= Dogwoods, Wave= ZigZags, Rainbow= Stripes. The 4 prints are an edition of 25. The dimensions are 32 x 32 1/2 inches. Please contact us for information about pricing and availability.

Tom Slaughter: New Book and The Madness of Art

Durham Press would like to congratulate Tom Slaughter on his new children’s book Boat Works. The book is filled with Tom’s beautiful and fun images.  Tom was also just featured in an episode of our friend  Jim Kempner’s The Madness of Art. If you have never seen it , it’s a must watch for people in the art world. The episode with Tom is both funny and charming! Congratulations to both of you! Click here to watch

Emil Lukas in New York

Emil Lukas, Center Hum East & West, 2011, Screenprints, 37 1/2 x 29 inches (each), edition of 25

Emil Lukas is exhibiting a large sculpture at SEVEN from April 28-May 20th. SEVEN is holding its first New York exhibition in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at The Boiler (191 N. 14th Street, Brooklyn). The exhibition features major installations, paintings and sculptures. Ermenegildo Zenga commissioned Lukas to create several new thread paintings to celebrate their Passion for Silk event. The paintings are currently on view in the Zenga flagship store in New York, they will remain in New York until May 9th when they will travel to the Beverly Hills store.

Emil Lukas, Skin, Heat shrink plastic, approx. 16 x 14 feet

Polly Apfelbaum: Rome Prize and Vienna

Durham Press would like to congratulate Polly Apfelbaum on winning the 116th annual Rome Prize Competition in Visual Arts. Polly’s name was announced with the other winners on April 26th in New York. Recipients of the 2012-13 Rome Prizes are provided with a fellowship that includes a stipend, a studio and room and board in Rome, Italy. The Rome Prize is a great honor and is awarded to individuals who represent the “highest standards of excellence in the arts and humanities”.

Polly Apfelbaum‘s current  show Planiverse at Galerie nachst Stephan in Vienna was featured in this beautiful video. The exhibition runs from March 30th through May 19,2012.

Polly will be returning to the Durham Press studios this spring- stay tuned to our blog for updates on new prints and projects!

Visit Durham Press at The Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair

Polly Apfelbaum, Rainbow 48 x 32 #4, 2011, Woodblock Monoprint, 48 x 32 inches

Durham Press will be exhibiting at the Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair at at the Baltimore Museum of Art during the weekend of April 28th. The fair is open on Saturday from 11am until 6pm and on Sunday from 12noon until 6pm. For one weekend every two years, more than 20 presses, printers and dealers meet in Baltimore for a 2 day fair. There are several print-related events, openings and lectures We hope to see you in Baltimore!

VIP PAPER Art Fair

Durham Press will be exhibiting at VIP PAPER from April 18th through 21st. The Press was selected by the fair for a feature in VIP Discussions. Check out the beautiful video where Ann and JP explain printmaking at Durham Press. Below are a few photos of the film crew at the Press.

We will be exhibiting at VIP PAPER from April 18th through 21st. VIP Art Fair builds new technologies for the world’s most prominent contemporary art galleries to showcase available works by the artists they represent, for sophisticated collectors to connect with these galleries, and for the international art community to experience and engage with art. VIP Art Fair translates the experience of a traditional bricks-and-mortar fair to an online environment, serving as a site for exploration and conversation while empowering the relationship between collector and dealer. The fair goes live on April 19th with an elite access day on April 18th, please click here to register for elite access to the fair.

Images from Dallas

Greetings from the Dallas Art Fair! We will be exhibiting at the fair all weekend. Please stop by to visit if you are in the area. The fair has an online component if you aren’t in Dallas- check out Gallerist for more info.

Mickalene Thomas at the Santa Monica Museum of Art

Landscape Majestic, 2011, 52 x 68 5/8 inches, Woodblock, Silkscreen and Digital Print, edition of 30

Please join us in congratulating Mickalene Thomas on her current exhibition Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe at the Santa Monica Musuem of Art. The exhibition opens on Friday, April 13th and runs through August 19th. This is Mickalene’s first major solo museum exhibition. The show features a new suite of landscape paintings and portraits. The exhibition will travel to the Brooklyn Museumin the fall of 2012.

Landscape with Tree, 2012, Rhinestones, acrylic, oil, and enamel on wood panel, 100 x 90 inches, Courtesy of the Artist, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects 

Interior: Blue Couch with Green Owl, 2012, Rhinestones, acrylic, oil, and enamel on wood panel, 108 x 84 inches, Collection of Michael Hoeh, New York, NY

Durham Press at the Dallas Art Fair

Durham Press will be returning to the Dallas Art Fair for our second year. We are looking forward to exhibiting new and recent prints by Hurvin Anderson, Polly Apfelbaum, Roland Fischer, Emil Lukas, Beatriz Milhazes, James Nares and Mickalene Thomas. The fair opens on with a Preview Gala on Thursday, April 12th and ends on Sunday, April 15th. We look forward to seeing our old Dallas friends and making new ones! Please visit us in booth F5.

Polly Apfelbaum, Love Alley, 2011, 32 x 68 inches, Edition of 25

Emil Lukas, Center Hum East & West, 2011, 37 1/2 x 29 inches, Edition of 25

Hurvin Anderson, Welcome Series: Black and White, 2011, Edition of 30

James Nares, You Don't Say 2, 2012, 28 x 75 inches, edition of 36

Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass delivered to LACMA

Michael Heizer, Offering 1, 3 of 21, 108 x 36 x 4 inches, Variant edition, Die-embossed, dye saturated screenprint, each print has unique coloring and markings

Levitated Mass has arrived at the LACMA campus after months of delay. The sculpture is composed of a 340-ton granite megalith which is placed over a 456-foot-long slot constructed on LACMA’s campus. The negative form is an integral part of the artwork. Heizer conceived of the artwork in 1968, but discovered an appropriate boulder only decades later, in Riverside County, California. At 340 tons, the boulder is one of the largest megaliths moved since ancient times. Levitated Mass speaks to the expanse of art history, from ancient traditions of creating artworks from megalithic stone, to modern forms of abstract geometries and cutting-edge feats of engineering

Michael Heizer was one of the first artists to work at Durham Press- he has completed several projects with the Press. The Offering Series is a variant edition of 21, it is die-embossed, dye saturated screenprint, each print has unique coloring and markings. Michael specializes in large-scale sculptures and land art. Since the late 1990′s he has been working on City, an enormous complex in the Nevada desert.

Scenes from the Armory Show

We had a great week at The Armory. Thanks to everyone for visiting the fair and our booth. Below are some snapshots from the fair.