No. 19: Intermede II, No. 8 by Kenneth Alfred
Kenneth Alfred, Intermede II, No. 8 (2014). After I looked and looked again, whittling down the dozens of entries to this iteration of the Prix de Print, Kenneth Alfred’s etching Intermède II, No. 8...
View ArticleWilliam Kentridge: Drawing Has its Own Memory
William Kentridge, from Domestic Scenes (1980), etchings with soft ground and aquatint, each from one copper plate, images varying 11.5 x 13.5 or 16 cm, sheets varying 28.5 x 38 cm. Edition of 30...
View ArticleAn American in Paris
Jim Dine, Cheval Blanc Poem (2015), woodcut, power-tool abrasions and hand-painted acrylic, 170 x 124 cm. Edition of 10. Printed by Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris. Published by Alan Cristea, London....
View ArticleArt in Art in Print No. 7: Kate McCrickard, Drinkers (2017)
Kate McCrickard, Barflies from Drinkers (2017), oil paint on Japanese paper with frottage, traced monotype and painted monotype, 38 x 33 cm. Unique image. Printed by the artist, Paris. Art in Art in...
View ArticleWayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud, Academic Clown from Clown Memories (2017). White pigment is a recurrent feature in the work of Wayne Thiebaud. He uses it as a bright ground beneath his pastel-heavy palettes, or as...
View ArticleTom Hammick
Some books have pictures and some pictures have books,” opined R.B. Kitaj in vocal opposition to formal abstraction. (R.B. Kitaj, Second Diasporist Manifesto (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007),...
View ArticleNicole Eisenman
Nicole Eisenman, Beer Garden (2012–2017). Nicole Eisenman’s extraordinary new Beer Garden pushes intaglio into the realm of painting. The chef d’oeuvre of a group of plates realized with Harlan and...
View ArticleJim Dine
In eight large new prints created at Atelier Michael Woolworth for the fall 2017 exhibition “Montrouge Paintings” at Galerie Templon, Paris, Jim Dine applied his indefatigable energy to images that...
View ArticleMinding the Gaps: Watermarks as Art
Mel Bochner, Language is Not Transparent (1999), unique work in handmade paper, watermarked translucent abaca on black cotton base sheet, sheet 40 x 30 inches. Published by Dieu Donné Papermill, New...
View ArticleTacita Dean and Julie Mehretu: 90 Monotypes for 90 Years
Julie Mehretu, Monotype #40 (2018), monotype with printing inks and occasional acrylic, 22 x 29 inches. Copyright Julie Mehretu. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. One of...
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