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Now, Judith B. Hecker!
Printmaking is flourishing in the twenty-first century, with artists turning to new digital approaches, renewing age-old techniques, and printing on and with alternative materials. This exhibition reflects the myriad of printed formats that artists are engaging in today, from the traditional intimacy of the singular sheet or book to expansive, multipart projects and installations that run floor to ceiling and wall to wall.
This gallery contains a selection of works created since 2000 and acquired by the Museum. Included are prints by young artists new to the medium, who have found a fresh lens through which to filter their subjects. Also included are prints by more established figures, who return to printmaking again and again, seeking new creative challenges. Taken together, the artists in this gallery employ a variety of strategies. Some exploit digital techology to alter preexisting images seamlessly or to create entirely new imaginary worlds. Others take advantage of the inherent multiplicity of prints to establish modular systems or produce seemingly endless variations on a motif. We find artists who breathe new life into centuries-old formats like the portfolio in order to develop unusual narrative situations, and others who layer printed imagery to construct meandering environments, stretching the definition of printmaking today.
Judith B. Hecker
Assistant Curator
Department of Prints and Illustrated Books
Now, Judith B. Hecker!
Printmaking is flourishing in the twenty-first century, with artists turning to new digital approaches, renewing age-old techniques, and printing on and with alternative materials. This exhibition reflects the myriad of printed formats that artists are engaging in today, from the traditional intimacy of the singular sheet or book to expansive, multipart projects and installations that run floor to ceiling and wall to wall.
This gallery contains a selection of works created since 2000 and acquired by the Museum. Included are prints by young artists new to the medium, who have found a fresh lens through which to filter their subjects. Also included are prints by more established figures, who return to printmaking again and again, seeking new creative challenges. Taken together, the artists in this gallery employ a variety of strategies. Some exploit digital techology to alter preexisting images seamlessly or to create entirely new imaginary worlds. Others take advantage of the inherent multiplicity of prints to establish modular systems or produce seemingly endless variations on a motif. We find artists who breathe new life into centuries-old formats like the portfolio in order to develop unusual narrative situations, and others who layer printed imagery to construct meandering environments, stretching the definition of printmaking today.
Judith B. Hecker
Assistant Curator
Department of Prints and Illustrated Books