Durham Press @ INK Miami

We’re on our way to INK Miami next week, the show runs from December 2nd though the 6th.

INK Miami is located at 1850 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, only a couple of blocks from Miami Basel, and admission is free- so we look forward to seeing you there!

It’s a great little fair that is dedicated only to prints. This year the participants are going to make an effort to bring some printmaking materials to give visitors a little insight into how prints are made. We are going to bring one of the jigs and all the woodblocks from one of our new Apfelbaums, as well as a great little slideshow of behind the scene at Durham Press!

We will be exhibiting a selection of our lastest prints including Hurvin Anderson, Polly Apfelbaum, Beatriz Milhazes, James Nares, Allison Elizabeth Taylor, and Ray Charles White.

And, as always, we will have monoprints and editions of many more artists to browse through. For more information on our artists, see our website.

Color Field Note Portfolio

A snapshot of Polly Apfelbaum’s Color Field Notes on the wall at Durham Press.

Polly Apfelbaum launches new monprints at this year’s New York Print Fair

Durham Press will launch several new Polly Apfelbaum monoprints at this year’s fall fairs. New work will include smaller  sized “Love” woodblocks (the flowers),  as well as some remarkable new “ZigZag” prints in a grand scale.

Priced at an affordable entry point, there will be new “Love” monoprints in sizes ranging from 12″x 12 to 20 x 20″. The prints were originally made as part of Polly’s conceptualization for a new edition, but they were so successful as unique prints, and fitting for our changed economy that we made a group of them in different sizes for this year’s fair.

WAVE PARK – five new 79 x 79″ monoprints have just been completed Wave Park 3 will be exhibited at the fair.

 

Polly Apfelbaum at Locks Gallery

Polly Apfelbaum’s exhibition, Monochromes 2003-2007, opens at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia on September 5th, 2008. The show runs from September 2nd through September 30th and will feature a number of Polly’s “fallen painting” installations. The Locks Gallery website provides the following press release:

Locks Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of fabric installations by Polly Apfelbaum, on view September 2-30, 2008. There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, September 5, 5:30-7:30 pm.

Polly Apfelbaum’s highly intricate fabric installations – works she describes as “fallen paintings”, range from mandalic sunbursts to riotous spills and Pop-inspired gardens. Comprised of hundreds of individual dyed fabric pieces, Apfelbaum’s installations reference modern art history – the 1950s poured works of Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler, and Lynda Benglis’s latex floor pieces. With their vibrant, saturated colors, Apfelbaum’s works explore the nature of craft, Pop design aesthetic, and sewn, hand-crafted applications.

The Locks Gallery exhibit will bring together 4 large-scale floor works from 2003–07 that have not been previously exhibited together. Each of the four works presents a variation on flower imagery. Limited to a single color with the flowers outlined in black, these flower power works line the gallery wall’s perimeter and envelope the viewer like a cartoon garden brought to life.

A series of the artist’s 20 x 24 inch Polaroid images of her flowers will also be shown in the Locks installation.

New York-based Apfelbaum has had one-person museum exhibitions throughout the US and Europe. Her recent solo exhibitions were held at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis and the Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. The ICA Philadelphia organized a 2003 retrospective that traveled to the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati and the Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. The artist’s work is in numerous museum collections including MoMA, the Whitney Museum of Art, L.A. County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art and Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Locks Gallery is located at 600 Washington Square South in Philadelphia, PA. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm. For additional information, please contact Locks Gallery at 215.629.1000 voice, 215.629.3868 fax, or info@locksgallery.com.

For more information, please visit the Locks Gallery website here.

Polly Apfelbaum Production in the Studio

For the last couple of weeks, the studio crew has been working hard to finish production on the last of our new editions–Polly Apfelbaum’s Wood Street and Lover’s Leap 13. Both editions required a bit of innovation and a constructed jig in order to print the perfect edition, and it has been an interesting process to see these prints being produced. Below are a handful of images taken while the studio crew has been been working on these two unique new editions.

Jason, Kyle and Jeremy inking blocks prior to placing them in the jig seen in the foreground

Jason making notes on the ink colors while Kyle and Jeremy place inked blocks into the jig

Jeremy and Kyle placing inked blocks into the jig

Inked blocks in the jig

Once the jig is filled with the appropriate blocks, the entire set up is placed into the hydraulic press, and all of the blocks are pressed into handmade sheets of Japanese paper. The end result is a finished Lover’s Leap 13 print, as seen below.

Colors rolled out for Polly Apfelbaum’s Wood Street (Gray)

Chris placing the inked blocks into the custom-made jig

Chris locking the jig up preparing it to be printed

Reveal of one of the Wood Street (Gray) prints

The finished Wood Street portfolio

Revision, Reiteration, Recombination installation images

Curator Leslie Wayne chatting in front of Lydia Dona’s Portraits & Speed…

We recently received installation images from the exhibition Revision, Reiteration, Recombination: Process and the Contemporary Print curated by Leslie Wayne. The show featured Durham Press prints by Polly Apfelbaum, Lydia Dona and Leslie Wayne among others and traveled to two separate venues. The included images were taken from the installation at the College of Visual Arts in Minneapolis where JP joined Leslie and another invited guest in a roundtable discussion. By all accounts, the exhibition was a success and may travel to other venues later next year.

Polly Apfelbaum’s Baby Love 84 (left) among other works in the exhibition

Image of the installation including works by Leslie Wayne (center right) and Lydia Dona (right)

New Durham Press prints @ Marty Walker Gallery

Tonight marks the opening of Recent Prints by Polly Apfelbaum, Roland Fischer, Beatriz Milhazes, James Nares and Alison Elizabeth Taylor at Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas, Texas. All of the prints in the show are recent projects completed at Durham Press, and for Roland Fischer’s Facades on Paper III, James Nares’ GO and Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s Idylls, this is the first time they will have ever been exhibited outside of the print fairs. The show runs from March 29th to May 3rd, 2008 with an opening reception tonight, March 29th, from 5-8 pm. For more information, please visit www.martywalkergallery.com and click on “Current Exhibition.”

The Marty Walker Gallery website features the following press release for the show:

Marty Walker Gallery presents recent prints from Durham Press. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Durham Press has earned a reputation for impeccable quality among artists, dealers and curators worldwide. A fine art print publisher based in a turn-of-the century schoolhouse in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the Press has published and produced over one hundred limited edition contemporary prints with influential artists from around the world. Its projects have been placed with major museums and contemporary art collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Press is a member of the IFPDA. This exhibition features extraordinary new prints by Polly Apfelbaum, Roland Fischer, Beatriz Milhazes, James Nares, and Alison Elizabeth Taylor.

Polly Apfelbaum’s new multicolor wood-block prints recall the artist’s marker on silk-rayon velvet wall pieces, part Josef Albers, part Gene Davis, with the same pop sensibility that informed her flower series. The woodblock monoprint in the exhibit consists of a composition of stripes featuring a spectrum of up to eighty colors. Apfelbaum’s ubiquitous stripes simultaneously address color theory, fashion, pop culture, and rhythm, revealing themselves as both cliché yet iconic. Apfelbaum’s work is included in numerous museum collections, including the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, and Magasin 3 Stockholm, Sweden.

Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes embraces motifs that might become kitschy in less skilled hands. Heavily influenced by both the botanical gardens outside her studio and her sister’s dance company, the flirtatious colors and festive patterns are steeped in carnivalesque rhythms and landscape of her native Brazil. Milhazes has exhibited extensively, showing at the 2006 Shanghai Biennial and the 2004 Venice Biennale. Milhazes has work included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanzawa, Japan, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia Madrid, Spain.

For James Nares, painting is a sort of ritual process. A finished work, comprised of a single “perfect” brushstroke, in some ways relates to Asian calligraphy. However, unlike working with ink on paper, open to the caprices of chance, Nares reworks canvases over and over until a precise gesture appears capturing the perfect brush stroke. Born in England, Nares has worked and lived in New York since 1974. Nares work is included in many collections, including Albright Knox Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

German photographer Roland Fischer photographs sections of buildings’ façades in such a way as to flatten their geometry and create two-dimensional abstract compositions that are simple and starkly beautiful. Closely cropped buildings allude to both abstract painting and portraiture, purposefully concealing the context and size of large buildings in order emphasize their unique decorative and geometric patterns. Work by Fischer is included in collections, such as the Margulies Family Collection, Merrill Lynch London, Microsoft, and Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid, among others.

And in the OTHER GALLERY, recent Columbia graduate, Alison Elizabeth Taylor masterfully works ambiguous scenes of small-town adolescent angst in a suite of screenprints published by Durham Press making their exhibition debut at Marty Walker Gallery. In this suite, Taylor continues to portray suburban small-town scenes of mischief, boredom, and awkwardness, among barren landscapes and tacky interiors. Taylor’s narratives are sharp social critiques displaying the banal and the abject in her dystopic vision of modern life. Taylor’s mundane landscapes are executed in the antiquated medium of marquetry (wood veneer inlay), for a solo exhibit at James Cohan Gallery, May 22 -June 21st, 2008.

Polly Apfelbaum @ Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe

Next month, Polly Apfelbaum is going to be part of a group exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The exhibition, titled Hair of the Dog, features Polly’s work alongside that of AES+F, Ann Gaziano, Rebecca Holland, Jason Manly, Philip Sanderson and Brandon Soder. The exhibition runs from April 5th through May 25th, 2008, with an opening reception on April 5th from 5 to 7 pm. For more information, please visit the Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe website here.

According to the Center for Contemporary Arts website:

The exhibition Hair of the Dog investigates the vocabulary, limitations, and mythology of the medium of painting through modern art history and into the 21st century. The artists and their works do not lend themselves to conclusions; rather, the aim is to provoke critical considerations of how painting functions as art in our culture. None of the artists in the exhibition will apply pigment to canvas in the traditional manner; some will not use paint at all. Portraiture, landscape, and narrative are some of the structures within the language of painting to be engaged. Featuring the work of AES+F, Polly Apfelbaum, Ann Gaziano, Rebecca Holland, Jason Manly, Philip Sanderson, & Brandon Soder; mediums include needlepoint, video, installation, photography, and cast sugar.

Polly Apfelbaum @ New Mexico Museum of Art

This week we shipped out Polly Apfelbaum’s Lover’s Leap 13 to the New Mexico Museum of Art, where it will be a part of an exhibition titled Flower Power: A Subversive Botanical.

According to the New Mexico Museum of Art website:

Flower Power will examine anti-war sentiments, anti-establishment demands, class realignments, gender divisions, and utopian desires associated with the single petal, daisy flower that was an icon of the 1960s.

The show will run from February 1, 2008 to May 11, 2008. For more information, visit www.mfasantafe.org

Series of limited edition buttons the Museum is having made based on artworks from the show.

Leslie Wayne exhibitions in Georgia, Florida and Minnesota

We just received an announcement that Leslie Wayne is having a show at Solomon Projects in Atlanta, Georgia. The show, titled No Going Back, will be up from January 25 – February 29, 2008, with an opening reception on January 25 from 6-8 pm. Leslie will also be giving a talk on Saturday, January 26 at 11 am. For more information on the show, visit www.solomonprojects.com.

Leslie also curated a show of prints that will be exhibited at the University of Central Florida and the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. The show, titled Revision, Reiteration, Recombination: Process and the Contemporary Print, features work made in collaboration with Durham Press by Lydia Dona, Polly Apfelbaum and Leslie herself, among others. The show will be up at UCF from January 17 – February 21, 2008 and then will travel to the College of Visual Arts, where it will be up from March 6 – April 5, 2008.

Portraits & Speed in the Architecture of Desire #2 by Lydia Dona

Portraits & Speed in the Architecture of Desire #3 by Lydia Dona

Design for Life and Dislocation by Leslie Wayne

Polly Apfelbaum @ Blancpain Art Contemporain, Switzerland

We recently received images of the three-person exhition that Polly Apfelbaum is in at Blancpain Art Contemporain in Switzerland. The show was curated by Etienne Ficheroulle and will be up through January 12, 2008.

exterior shot of Blancpain Art Contemporain

a piece by Goldiechiari on the left and Polly’s Love Street 9 on the right

Love Street 9

a piece by Ann Veronica Janssens

Polly’s Baby Love 89