Hurvin Anderson at Durham Press

Hurvin Anderson, Welcome Series: Black and White, 2011, 38 x 58 3/4 inches, Woodblock and Screenprint with Wallpaper Relief, Edition of 30

Hurvin Anderson was working in the Durham Press studios for two weeks this October. He was here to sign his most recent print Welcome Series: Black and White – a beautiful woodblock and screenprint with wallpaper relief printing – and he also began working on a colorful variation of the same image, that should be complete next year.

Hurvin has now created 4 projects at Durham Press. The first print created by Hurvin is Barbershop Print , which is a woodblock and screenprint created in 2010. Mrs. S. Keita was the second project to be completed in 2010 and is a series of 8 multicolored screenprints. Central Range, another beautiful screenprint and Welcome Series: Black and White – both were created and completed in 2011.

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.

Polly Apfelbaum talks and tours

Polly Apfelbaum, Rainbow Ribbons 1, 2011, Woodblock Monoprint, 37 1/4 x 69 3/4 inches,

Mark your calendars for Polly Apfelbaum’s upcoming talks. Polly will be speaking about printmaking this weekend, on Sunday, October 23rd at 2pm, at Philips de Pury in New York. On Saturday, November 5th at 1pm Polly will be leading a guided tour of the IFPDA Print Fair. Sign up for the tour here. Polly is giving a lecture at The Print Center on Thursday, November 10th at 6pm. The lecture will explore her recent exhibition in Amden, Switzerland and artist book Haunted House. Congrats to Polly on the upcoming lectures!

Durham Press, Upcoming Fairs, Dallas Art Fair Video

Durham Press will be participating in two art fairs this fall – the IFPDA print fair in New York, from November 3rd-6th, and  Art Miami, from November 30th-December 4th. The studio is busy working on new prints that will be unveiled at the fairs.

Ann was interviewed by Art this Week during the Dallas Art Fair in April. Click on this link to view the video, and hear her speak about the inner workings of Durham Press, as well as highlights from our booth. Below are some installation shots from past fairs.We hope to see you this fall in New York or Miami – or both!

IFPDA Durham Press booth 2010

IFPDA Durham Press booth 2010

Dallas Art Fair Durham Press booth 2011

Ink Miami Durham Press booth 2009

IFPDA Durham Press booth 2008

Armory Show Durham Press booth 2002

Durham Press at the New York Print Fair

Durham Press will be exhibiting at the 2010 IFPDA print fair at the Park Avenue Armory from November 4th through the 7th. We will be releasing several new works by Mickalene Thomas, Hurvin Anderson, Beatriz Milhazes, Polly Apfelbaum and James Nares. Please join us at the fair!

Please join us at Park Avenue & 67th Street. The hours are as follows:

Thursday, November 4  12-8pm

Friday, November 5   12-5pm

Saturday, November 6  12-8pm

Sunday, November 7  12-6pm

Deborah Ripley’s Paper Chase 11-6-09

We got a nice mention in the Artnet Magazine – Deborah Ripley’s Paper Chase

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/ripley/prints-new-york11-6-09.asp

Thanks and thanks IFPDA ladies for making it such a great event!

Hurvin Anderson, New @ Durham Press

Peter’s Sitters 2 & Welcome Series: Fan Drawing, two of Hurvin Anderson’s paintings

Durham Press recently began working with painter Hurvin Anderson. Hurvin has been working on several prints, using both silkscreen and woodcut processes, and we were pleased to launch the first of these beautiful new works at the IFPDA Print Fair in New York City. The print is yet untitled, it is a woodblock and woodcut of amazing complexity and measures 33” x 26” and will be made in an edition of approximately 40. Thomas Dane will be exhibiting the new print at MiamiBasel and we will have it on display at INK Miami also. The edition is still in production, but is available now for pre-publication sales.

Unititled 2009

In addition to working at Durham Press, 2009 has seen Hurvin exhibiting work in several important venues both in the United States and internationally. In January, he had his second solo show at Thomas Dane, his gallery in London, followed soon after by an exhibition of his paintings at the Tate Britain. Through October 25th, a body of work titled the Peter’s Series can be seen at the Studio Museum in Harlem. This is his first solo museum exhibition in the United States and has garnered a great deal of attention, including a review in the New York times written by Roberta Smith (which can be read here). All in all, it has been a very busy, exciting year for Hurvin and we are happy to have him out working at Durham Press in the midst of all of it. Enjoy some photographs of Hurvin working out at Durham Press (and a sneak peek of one of his new editions).

James Nares back @ Durham Press

James Nares, long-time Durham Press friend and collaborator , returned to the studio recently to complete work on his new screenprint, THUMP. This new edition is the 13th print James has created at Durham Press, and he and JP (the master printer here) continue to push the dynamic dimensionality of his painted brushstrokes into amazing, rich, vibrant screenprinted editions. When asked recently about his experience of working at Durham Press and with JP on this process, James said:

Working at Durham Press is really a pleasure. JP’s knowledge of, and experience with the silkscreening process is second to none, and working with him is a collaboration, as with another artist. He has come up with an ingenious method to create screen prints of my brush strokes which have all the body and tones of an actual, painted brush stroke, but without the use of half-tone…

For those maybe unfamiliar with the screenprinting process, creating a halftone is the process of turning all the tone in an image into various sized and spaced dots in order to create the tonal variation. This allows all of the tone to be printed at once and is what you are looking at when you see a black and white photo printed in the newspaper, for example. What gives James’ prints the fluidity, the subtle shift in tone and the overall richness of color is that is is not printed as a halftone, but is rather broken down into 10-15 layers of varied tone and color and then rebuilt, through printing each layer one on top of the other. It is a complicated process, but creates a seamlessness in the color and tonal shifts that would not be possible otherwise.

To see THUMP as well as some of the other work James has produced with Durham Press, please visit our booth at the IFPDA Print Fair in New York City. The fair is held at the Park Avenue Armory and runs from November 5th – November 8th, 2009.

Also, James film Rome in ’78 is currently being shown at MOMA as part of the film exhibition, Looking at Music: Side 2. The next screening will be on Saturday, November 28th at 7:30 p.m. The film, according to the MOMA website, is “a narrative about the Roman emperor Caligula set in a shabby Manhattan apartment, proposes an analogy between ancient Rome and modern America as cultural empires. The image below is a still from the film.

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)