INK Miami 2007

This week we will be heading to the INK Miami Art Fair in Miami Beach, Florida. This year is the second year of INK, and if last year’s fair is any indication, it is going to be an amazing week. Like last year, the fair will be held at the Suites of Dorchester located at 1850 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. We will be in Suite #156 on the first floor, so please stop in and visit us. The fair runs from Wednesday, December 5th to Sunday, December 9th and the hours of the fair are: 12 p.m to 6 p.m on Wednesday, 10 a.m to 7 p.m on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m to 3 p.m on Sunday. Below are several photos from our suite at the 2006 INK Miami fair.

IFPDA New York Print Fair

It has been two weeks since the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, and things have been non-stop around Durham Press ever since. This year’s fair was the most successful one Durham Press has ever been a part of, and everyone around here is trying to keep up with all of the people interested in the new editions we debuted this year. Throughout the weekend, our booth saw a steady stream of visitors from all corners of the artworld and beyond, and friends and Durham Press artists, Lisa Stefanelli, Polly Apfelbaum, Emil Lukas, Tom Slaughter, Lydia Dona and Ray Charles White all came by to show their support. In the next couple of weeks, we will be preparing for INK Miami, but for now here are some photos from this year’s amazing IFPDA New York Print Fair. If you are ever in the city and need a recommendation for hotel, restaurant or something to do, please check out My Urban Sherpa, our friend Alison Curry’s online guide to New York City.

Ann and JP discussing the work with visitors to our booth

Exterior shot of our booth

JP discussing work with a visitor to the booth

IFPDA New York Print Fair

This week we will be heading to the IFPDA New York Print Fair, where we will debut many of the new editions you can see in progress below. The Print Fair is unique among the world’s major art fairs for its focus on fine prints from all periods. This year the fair runs from November 1, 2007 to November 4, 2007, with an opening night reception on October 31st from 5:00pm to 9:30pm. We are very excited about the new work we will have to show, and we’re looking forward to seeing the work the other exhibitors have on display.

In the photo below, you can see our space at the 2006 New York Print Fair. From left to right, the work hanging in the booth is Beatriz Milhazes’ Summer Night, John Giorno’s Welcoming the Flowers, Beatriz Milhazes’ Fig and Delancey Street by Ray Charles White.

At this year’s fair, we will be launching new editions by Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Roland Fischer, Polly Apfelbaum, James Nares and Ray Charles White, as well as debuting new monoprints by Polly Apfelbaum and Emil Lukas. We will also have on hand a number of amazing older works from our inventory. Please join us at the Fair located at The Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street. The open hours are 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm on Sunday.

Ray Charles White was out at the Press all last week working on proofs for three of his new editions. In the photo below, you can see one of his new photogravure prints being revealed. The print will be included in a series of three, titled Gravure Bubble Studies, and will be on display in our booth at the IFPDA New York Print Fair.

Making photogravure plates is a very exacting and in-depth process. The photogravure.com website does a very good job of explaining the steps that are involved and relating the photogravure process to the origin and evolution of the medium of photography. In keeping with this tradition, Ray has chosen to print his photogravures in an ink color very similar to the tone of a cyanotype print. In the photo below, Ray and Chris discuss the new proof while Chris cleans the plate.

Ray also has several other new editions that will be debuting at the Fair. Below is an image of Pericu Palms, a series of three screenprints on anodized aluminum. House and Garden Magazine recently published an article about Ray’s work on aluminum and his ongoing collaboration with Durham Press. To read more, click here.

Emil Lukas returned this week to work on the etchings that will become the second piece of his new monoprint diptychs (you can see the in-progress screenprints in the Emil Lukas post below). The printed image is generated by dozens of etched coins that are individually inked and placed into a copper matrix.

Emil placing inked coins into the copper matrix

Once the matrix is filled with inked coins, it is run through the press. In the second image below, you can see Chris and Jason reveal one of the first prints in this new series.

Etched coins that have been individually inked and are ready to print

Chris and Jason revealing one of Emil’s new etchings

Each diptych is comprised of a unique screenprint to be hung on the left and a unique etching to be hung on the right. In the image below, you can begin to see how each print relates to and alters the other when they are placed in close proximity. Colors that were nearly invisible before, are pulled out and brought to the forefront when they are prominent in the other print, and there is an overall shift in what your eye picks up on when looking at the prints as a pair. The first in this new series of diptychs, U.M.R = L (#0906), will be on display in our booth at the IFPDA New York Print Fair. For more information on Emil Lukas and his work, please visit his website here.

U.M.R=L (#0906)