Polly Apfelbaum Haunted House

Polly Apfelbaum’s installation “Haunted House” will be presented at “T” Space in Rhinebeck, New York from June 16th through July 22nd. The installation was inspired by a haunted house in Elizaville, NY and is comprised of over 350 images and 3D objects. This exhibition is based on a project that Polly debuted in Switzerland last summer. The opening reception is this Saturday, June 16th. For more information please contact “T” Space, 917.697.0334, tspace.ny@gmail.com.

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!

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 Armory Show

Durham Press will be exhibiting at The Armory Show in New York from March 8-11, 2011. The Armory Show is America’s leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Pier 94 is located at Twelfth Avenue and 55th Street, New York, NY. The show runs from Thursday, March 8th through Sunday, March 11th from 12-8pm. Please visit Durham Press at Booth 615.

Beatriz Milhazes in Lisbon

Beatriz Milhazes’ Four Seasons exhibition will be on view at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon from February 17th until May 13th. The four paintings, collages and mobile are based on the Brazilian seasons. The work was exhibited at the Beyeler Foundation in 2011. The Gulbenkian’s 2012 exhibition program is highlighting contemporary Brazilian art.

detail of mobile

Installation of the Four Paintings

Mundy, 2011, Collage, 59 x 39 inches

Cacau, 2011, Collage, 27 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches

James Nares- New Prints and Exhibition

You Don't Say Series, 2011-12, Screenprints, 75 x 28 inches, Approximate Edition of 30

Durham Press is pleased to announce a new series of prints by James Nares. You Don’t Say is currently in production and should be completed in late January. The prints will be signed so that they can be installed horizontally or vertically. This is the 8th project, since 2002, that James has worked on with Durham Press.

Paul Kasmin is currently presenting an exhibition of James’ work 1976: Movies, Photographs and Related Works on Paper. The exhibition will feature 5 films that James made in 1976. The exhibition runs from January 6th until February 11th, 2012. Check out Linda Yablonsky’s great review of the exhibition for the New York Times.

You Don't Say 2 in Production

James Reviewing a Proof

Printing of the Edition

Michael Heizer- Levitated Mass Update and Upcoming Exhibition

Close up of the Levitated Mass boulder

Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass has been delayed and re-routed due to permitting and bureaucracy. The boulder was scheduled to be delivered in to LACMA in October and open in November 2011. It remains in a California rock quarry waiting transportation. Click here to read an updated article from the New York Times. This video highlights the challenges of moving such a large singular piece of earth.

Heizer will be featured in End of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 at MOCA which runs from April until July 2012. The exhibition highlights the media and documentation practices used in Land Art. The media practices are an integral part of using the earth as an artistic medium. Double Negative, Heizer’s 1500 feet long trench, will be a primary focus of the exhibition. The exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue.

Photograph of Double Negative by Michael Heizer

Beatriz Milhazes : Screenprints Exhibition by Whitechapel at the Windsor Gallery

Beatriz Milhazes is the first artist chosen for a solo exhibition at The Gallery at Windsor in Vero Beach, Florida. The exhibition was organized by the Whitechapel Gallery in London. The exhibition features all of the prints that Beatriz created at Durham Press from 1996-2011. Beatriz has worked with Durham Press since 1996, in that time she has created 25 beautiful and complicated prints. The Gallery at Windsor showcases this accomplishment.

Iwona Blazwick OBE, Director, Whitechapel Gallery, London said:”The Whitechapel Gallery has always pioneered world-class artists and we are delighted to realise a new exhibition in the Gallery at Windsor. I see Beatriz’s work as orchestral, with circular elements interweaving to form a symphony of colour and shape. The titles of her work are in themselves a form of poetry. To show these alongside archival materials and the beautiful artist’s books gives the show a further dimension. Art historical echoes are both European and Brazilian – we can see Milhazes as the inheritor both of artists such as Matisse and Sonia Delaunay, as well as the Brazilian Tropicalia movement. The different forms of her work will be enhanced by the fantastic light of the gallery and the beautiful landscape surrounding it.”

The exhibition will be on display from December 3rd, 2011 through February 28th, 2012. The opening of exhibition conincided with Art Basel Miami Beach. A catalogue of the prints will be produced and will feature a statement from JP about his working relationship with Beatriz and the process they have created and utilized to make this incredible body of work. Individuals and small groups of 10 or less are invited to tour the gallery, with all tours scheduled by appointment only. Gallery hours are: Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM; weekends 10:00 AM 5:00 PM. Please contact the gallery with questions and/or requests at 772 388 4071 or gallery@windsorflorida.com.

Durham Press in Miami

Complementary Ticket to Art Miami 2011

Durham Press will be exhibiting at Art Maimi from November 30th through December 4th. The fair is open from 11am-7pm Wednesday through Saturday and 11am-6pm on Sunday. We will be exhibiting new and recent prints by Hurvin Anderson, Polly Apfelbaum, Roland Fischer, Emil Lukas, Beatriz Milhazes, James Nares and Mickalene Thomas. Art Miami is located in Midtown Miami- a short taxi ride from Art Basel Miami Beach. Please visit us while you are in sunny Florida!

Durham Press at the IFPDA Print Fair 2011

Durham Press will be exhibiting at the 2011 IFPDA Print Fair from November 3rd through the 6thin New York. The fair is open from 12pm-8pm Thursday through Saturday and 12-6pm on Sunday. The preview is on Wednesday, November 2nd from 6:30-9pm- all procedes benefit the IFPDA Foundation. We will be in booth D3- please stop by to see new prints by Polly Apfelbaum, Emil Lukas, Hurvin Anderson and James Nares and recent prints by Beatriz Milhazes and Mickalene Thomas.

The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) is a non-profit organization of leading art dealers, galleries and publishers. The IFPDA fosters quality, ethics, connoiseurship and promotes a greater appreciation of fine art prints. Durham Press has been a member of the IFPDA since 2000.