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PRINTMAKING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: DREAMS AND PASSIONS FUEL MULTI-TALENTED COMMUNITY

// Current Issue, Issue Articles, January/February 2020

by Kristin Nord

From its beginning in 1995, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking’s mission has been to support, preserve and advance the art of original prints. Located in a converted stone carriage house in Norwalk, Connecticut, CCP is equipped to accommodate intaglio, lithography, monotype, silkscreen, woodblock printing, papermaking, book arts and digital processes.   This year, with the CCP’s Members Show, on display through February 9, viewers are also being introduced to the interior thoughts, dreams and passions that are fueling the work of this multi-aged and multi-talented community. With the theme “Under the Influence” to guide them, members responded with wide-ranging essays that have accompanied their art as wall text. Kimberly Henrikson, CCP’s executive director, said that she has been delighted by the responses not only of the participating members, but of the visitors who … [Read more...] about PRINTMAKING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: DREAMS AND PASSIONS FUEL MULTI-TALENTED COMMUNITY

Daniel Heyman and Lucy Ganje, It Was Such a Joy: Portrait of Leigh Jeanette, 2015–16, edition of 18, reduction woodcut and letterpress text, 54” x 35” dimensions for each panel. Courtesy of Cade Tompkins Projects.

Unexpected Surprises: Contemporary Printmaking Branches Out

// Issue Articles, November/December 2018

by J. Fatima Martins

The process of printmaking is a metaphor for the making of a human being: from many layers, one is achieved. “It’s a dialogue,” explained Paul DeRuvo, Associate Staff Printer, while speaking about three print-portraits arranged together in “E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One,” at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP), another solid and expertly curated exhibition of superb and diverse examples of contemporary print methods curated by Kimberly Henrikson, Executive Director of CCP. DeRuvo was talking specifically about artists Meg Turner, Elizabeth Peyton and Nicole Eisenman who are part of the seventeen artists in the exhibition which also features well-recognized artist-activists Swoon, Dana Schutz and Alison Saar. Addressing the theme of being human, the exhibition’s subject is the human body either in full form or as a portrait. From the exhibition statement: “We live in a time … [Read more...] about Unexpected Surprises: Contemporary Printmaking Branches Out