The Center for Contemporary announces the opening of its next exhibition The Second East Coast Screenprint Biennial that will be on display January 22 through March 25, 2017, with an Opening Reception on Sunday, January 22, from 3 pm to 5 pm. The Screenprint Biennial is an art exhibition that showcases a range of screenprint-based art applications, from framed, editioned prints, to installation, sculpture, video, ephemera, and posters. This exhibition, juried by Nathan Meltz, printmaker and lecturer in the Art Department of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, will showcase artists from around the country who utilize adventurous, relevant and passionate impressions within the screenprint medium.
Meltz commented on the Screenprint Biennial curatorial project, “Screenprinting is a celebration of hybridity and the future of print. In a time of ephemeral digital imagery and corporate messaging, screenprinting breaks the established mold by combining the digital with a hand-made process. It may even eschew the digital all-together; an art-making method that is expressive, tactile, and authentic. The works in the Screenprint Biennial 2016 capture this spirit, presenting works that explore, demand inspection, and, by challenging the definition of print itself, brings the screenprint into the 21st century.”
Executive Director Laura G. Einstein commented, “This exhibition has been two years in the making. I am so pleased that Nathan has brought these inventive and imaginative works to our attention. I am thrilled to install this exhibition at the Center.”
Running concurrently in the Lithography Studio is HORIZONS, an international traveling show featuring work by CCP members. HORIZONS premiered with the Cork Printmakers at the Quay Gallery in Cork, Ireland, February 2016 and then the exhibition traveled to Fyns Grafiske Vaerksted, in Odense, Denmark in May. This exhibition is comprised of thirty-five works by sixteen artist members of the Center and explores representations of horizons both physical and perceptual.
HORIZONS was juried by Faye Hirsch. Hirsch is a writer, editor and teacher who has published widely on contemporary art, including more than 100 articles and reviews in Art in America where she was a senior editor. Hirsch received her Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University in 1987. About the works she selected, Hirsch wrote, “The works in this exhibition cover a wide range of influences and habits…These sixteen artists look beyond the colony—beyond the niceties of craft and the border-hemmed province of printmaking—as they balance between the seductions of their medium and a larger practice that offers authentic expression its full outlet.”
