June 17–September 16, 2017
Opening and artist talks: Thursday, June 22, 6pm
Additional artist talks: Thursday, July 13, 6–8pm
International Print Center New York
508 West 26th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
www.ipcny.org
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Selected by Katherine Bradford
International Print Center New York (IPCNY) announces the 56th presentation of its New Prints program, a biannual, juried open call for prints created in the preceding 12 months. Titled Just Under 100, the exhibition was selected by artist Katherine Bradford, and features 98 artists from both the United States and abroad. Countries represented in the exhibition include Croatia, France, Italy, Serbia, and Thailand, as well as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The prints and print-based media on view show a marked return of figurative work, as well as varied uses of text, to confront issues of gender, race, and broader existential questions. Examples include Vilja Virks-Lee’s vote_pussy_hat screenprint, a reference to the 2017 Women’s March and one of several works with a feminist bent; Allie Christisen’s Lash Out bright pink print of an eyelash curler reveals itself to be a painstaking, many-layered woodcut, while Jess Sheridan’s Trump This features a hijab-wearing woman skateboarding in defiance. In addition to traditional mediums like screenprints, etchings, and lithographs, artists also created print-based animations, installations, and sculptures, showcasing the versatility and unlimited potential for experimentation inherent in printmaking.
Certain themes thread through the exhibition. “Some of the text-based work jumped out at me,” says Bradford, “perhaps because we are particularly attuned to social and political issues this year.” By displaying work created in the past 12 months, New Prints exhibitions offer a snapshot of the trends and concerns that artists are contending with right now, lending a sense of immediacy to each presentation. In Bradford’s view, “Conversations about gender, portraiture, humor, humanity, sexuality and language are there waiting to happen.”
Visit www.ipcny.org/just-under-100 for the full artist list.
About the juror
Katherine Bradford (American, b. 1942) is an artist living and working in New York City. Best known for her radiant, unearthly paintings and monotypes, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 and has exhibited at CANADA, Sperone Westwater, Planthouse, and Edward Thorp Gallery, New York; and Adams and Ollman Gallery, Portland, OR. She is Senior Critic in the Graduate program at the Yale School of Art.
About New Prints
IPCNY’s New Prints program was created as a platform for artists from the widest possible range of backgrounds working in the medium of print. The semi-annual open call welcomes all formats and techniques, as long as the work was produced in the preceding 12 months. The resulting exhibitions offer snapshots of the trends and concerns that artists are contending with in the moment, lending a sense of immediacy to each presentation.
The New Prints program is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and, in part, by the Areté Foundation. Support for all programs and exhibitions at IPCNY is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by Foundations including: Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Jockey Hollow Foundation, the Thompson Family Foundation, the New York Community Trust, and the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc.; along with major individual support. A grant from the PECO Foundation supports IPCNY’s exhibition program this season.
