Julie Mehretu speaking at the Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl booth, 2023. Photo by Annie Forrest.
FEBRUARY 2024 PROGRAMMING
All talks will be held at the Park Avenue Armory.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16th - 12:00PM
Presses, Plotters, Plates, Algorithms: AI Artmaking and Tools of Print and Drawing
The intersections between artificial intelligence and artmaking were forged long before today’s AI image making tools, and many foundational works have important ties with drawing and printmaking processes. Organized on the occasion of the exhibition Harold Cohen: AARON at the Whitney Museum of American Art, this conversation will explore Cohen’s groundbreaking AARON project, the software he developed in the late 1960s that drives plotting and painting machines in the creation of new work. Join Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art and curator of the exhibition, and Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints, both at the Whitney, for a dialogue about creativity, authorship, and collaboration.
Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Harold Cohen: AARON at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16th - 1:00PM
Printing Workshop with Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA
(NOTE: This event takes place in Booth C17.)
Explore relief printing, embossing, chine collé, and drypoint in a hands-on experience with the artists of DYPG.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16th - 2:00PM
Marie Watt tells stories not only in her celebrated textile, sculpture, and installation work, but also in print. Over her career, she has collaborated with master printers at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, OR), Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (Otis, OR), Tamarind Institute (Albuquerque, NM), and Mullowney Printing Company (Portland, OR). This conversation with her collaborating printers will illuminate Watt’s enduring engagement with print as a key element of her material, conceptual, and community practice. Introduction by Jordan Schnitzer. Moderated by Marjorie Devon, Director Emerita of Tamarind Institute.
Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation on view in the Jordan Schnitzer Gallery at Print Center New York, January 25 - May 18, 2024.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16th - 3:00PM
Printing Workshop with Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA
(NOTE: This event takes place in Booth C17.)
Explore relief printing, embossing, chine collé, and drypoint in a hands-on experience with the artists of DYPG.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16th - 4:00PM
During the 1890s, a new type of poster emerged in the United States, one that more closely resembled a work of art than an advertisement. Thanks to recent advancements in printing techniques, artists could create colorful, inventive compositions that seamlessly integrated text and images. This talk will be given in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition and related catalog, The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17th - 12:00PM
Offered in conjunction with the special project Collector Focus: Selections from Jordan Schnitzer and his Family Foundation.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17th - 1:00PM
Printing Workshop with Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA
(NOTE: This event takes place in Booth C17.)
Explore relief printing, embossing, chine collé, and drypoint in a hands-on experience with the artists of DYPG.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17th - 2:00PM
Focusing on his pivotal “Green Period.” This conversation examines recent lithographs and monotypes that explore ideas of spatial, narrative and philosophical scenarios.
This program is offered in conjunction with the recent release of Green Period: Prints, Drawings and Paintings 2018-2022 co-authored by Carroll Dunham, Dan Nadel, and Mary Simpson and published by JRP|Editions.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17th - 3:00PM
Printing Workshop with Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA
(NOTE: This event takes place in Booth C17.)
Explore relief printing, embossing, chine collé, and drypoint in a hands-on experience with the artists of DYPG.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17th - 3:15PM
Artist Talk with Tom Hammick.
(NOTE: This talk takes place in Booth A13.)
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17th - 4:00PM
Two large-scale works by William Kentridge, The Old Gods Have Retired and The Flood, on view as a special project at the 2024 IFPDA Fair, serve as a jumping off point for conversation on the decades-long dedication to printmaking by Kentridge, who will be featured in a new video interview with Phil Sanders. Kentridge’s works are as visually and physically layered as the human narratives influencing their meaning, weaving together contemporary and historic political and social themes, often using his native South Africa as a stand in for universal struggles for self determination.
Judy Hecker, an early supporter of Kentridge’s work, authored Trace (MoMA, 2010), part catalog and part artist book, as an accompaniment to the presentation of William Kentridge: Five Themes at MoMA -- the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s career presented in New York. Hecker currently serves as Executive Director of Print Center New York.
Jillian Ross is a collaborative master printer based in Saskatoon, Canada. Ross began working at the David Krut Workshop (Johannesburg, South Africa) in 2003 where she became one of William Kentridge’s primary print collaborators, completing some of Kentridge’s most ambitious print projects including: The Universal Archive, the Triumphs and Laments woodcut series, and most recently the Studio Life photogravures. Ross was responsible for implementing the two works on view, loaned by David Krut.
Sanders has been involved with the David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa since 2008 where he has served as an advisor to many of the monumental projects published with Kentridge. Remembering is the Effort, a catalog raisonné of the works of Kentridge published by David Krut over the past 30 years, authored by Phil Sanders and Jacqueline Flint, is due out this fall. Sanders authored Prints and Their Makers, winner of the 2021 IFPDA Book Award.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18th - 1:00PM
Printing Workshop with Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA
(NOTE: This event takes place in Booth C17.)
Explore relief printing, embossing, chine collé, and drypoint in a hands-on experience with the artists of DYPG.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18th - 2:00PM
Reframing German Expressionism: Jay A. Clarke, Starr Figura, and Freyda Spira in conversation
In 2024, three major US exhibitions will reexamine and reframe the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Edvard Munch: Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression (Yale University Art Gallery, Feb 16 - June 23) considers the work of Munch and Kirchner from the perspective of mental health. Käthe Kollwitz (Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 31 - July 20) spotlights Kollwitz’s role as an agent of social change and female empowerment. Paula Modersohn-Becker: I am Me (Neue Galerie New York, June 6 - Sept 9, and Art Institute of Chicago, Oct 12 - Jan 12, 2025) addresses Modersohn-Becker's innovative style and unconventional view of women. Join the curators for a round-table discussion about these projects and how four path breaking artists used prints and drawings to ask new questions and address different audiences.
Offered in conjunction with Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression, Yale University Art Gallery, Feb 16 - June 23 2024.
Jay A. Clarke, Rothman Family Curator, Prints and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago
Starr Figura, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Freyda Spira, Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale University Art Gallery
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18th - 3:00PM
Printing Workshop with Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA
(NOTE: This event takes place in Booth C17.)
Explore relief printing, embossing, chine collé, and drypoint in a hands-on experience with the artists of DYPG.