The Master Printer, the Artist, and the Publisher: Mullowney Printing and Catharine Clark Gallery Present a Survey Exhibition of Publications Since 2011. Click here to read the full exhibition press release.
Featuring works by Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet, Brad Brown and Lytle Shaw, Greg Niemeyer and Roger Antonsen, Alison Saar, Josephine Taylor, and Masami Teraoka
San Francisco, CA: Catharine Clark Gallery continues its Spring 2020 program with “The Master Printer, the Artist, and the Publisher,” a survey exhibition of publications with Mullowney Printing since 2011, featuring works by Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet, Brad Brown and Lytle Shaw, Greg Niemeyer and Roger Antonsen, Alison Saar, Josephine Taylor, and Masami Teraoka. On view from February 22 – March 28, 2020, the exhibition encompasses various media: direct gravure, etching, linocut, lithograph, monotype, and woodcut.
Catharine Clark Gallery and Mullowney Printing began their collaborative relationship with the release of Sandow Birk’s “Ten Leading Causes of Death in America,” a suite of chine-collé, direct gravure etchings published in 2004. In 2011, Mullowney and Clark began co-publishing Birk’s large-scale gravure series titled “Imaginary Monuments.” In 2019 they formalized their partnership and co-publish, release, and promote editions created at Mullowney Printing.
In conjunction with the exhibition, BOX BLUR* presents The Broadside in Action. A LIVE Letterpress Experience, every Saturday from February 22 – March 28, 2020. Working in collaboration with Mullowney Printing principal and master printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by master printers Erin McAdams, Harry Schneider, and assistant Wendy Liu, artists will be given the opportunity to interpret the role, function and meaning of the printed single sheet broadside in the 21st century. Viewers will have the opportunity to witness printmaking in action, to learn about technique and possibilities for art making on a letterpress.
Live printing will take place in a pop-up gallery during the course of the exhibition, with the artists and printers will be editioning broadsides on-site. The schedule of artists is as follows:
February 22 at 3pm: Wanxin Zhang
February 29 at 1pm: Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport
March 7 at 1pm: Julia Goodman and Michael Hall
March 14 at 1pm: Katherine Vetne
March 21 at 1pm: Masha Kachaeva
March 28 at 1pm: Julie Heffernan
Each artist’s or collaborative work is $100. Portfolios of all six projects can be reserved at $600.
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