Wednesday, January 11, 2012

MULTIPLICITY is an exhibition of contemporary prints.



MULTIPLICITY is an exhibition of contemporary prints from the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. These prints are selected to showcase the variety of print making techniques that leading artists use to day in collaboration with print makers to portrays a new form and style emerging in America. 


This is a great collection that allows artists and viewers to appreciate the various print making techniques and the forms and stories that come from the juxtaposing layers and patterns.


The exhibition was  featured at the Portrait Gallery, Washington DC.

Just Because #2
1997
Screenprint on Paper


By: Ross Bleckner
Born NYC 1949
 
Inspiration from strong female characters in the book.






Becky, Carma, Fern, Esther, Avey, and Bona from the portfolio Cane
2000
Woodcut on Paper

By: Martin Puryear
Born DC 1941


Untitled
2007
Sugar lift etching on Paper

By: Lim Meyers
Born NYC 1968


Pigment print on Paper

By: Micheal Platt


Ste. Sebastinne
1992
Drypoint on Paper

By: Louise Bourgeois
Born Paris 1911 - died NYC 2010

 


Red Jesus
1986
Woodcut on Paper

By: John Buck
Born IA 1946

 
My Heavens
2004
Color Lithography on Silver mylar and Amate Paper

By: Jane Hammond
Born CT 1950


Local Calm
2005
Color Aquatint, etching and engraving on paper chine collie

By: Julie Mehrutu
Born Ethiopia, 1970

Inspired from Hurricane Katerina and the stormy weather, currents and movements that occurred.


Illegal Alien Guide to the concept of relative surplus value
2009
Color lithograph on Paper

By: Enrique Chagoya
Born Mexico, 1953


A scroll like print made up of many pages that portrays the journey.






Alabama Loyalists greeting the federal gun boats, from the portfolio Harper's Pictorial history of the civil war
2005
Offset Lithograph and Screenprint on Paper

By: Kara Walker
Born CA 1969

(so much for allowing for my own interpretation!)




Pack-Mules in the mounting, from the portfolio Harper's Pictorial history of the civil war
2005
Offset Lithograph and Screenprint on Paper

By: Kara Walker
Born CA 1969














Signal station, Summit of Maryland heights, from the portfolio Harper's Pictorial history of the civil war
2005
Offset Lithograph and Screenprint on Paper

By: Kara Walker
Born CA 1969



D Train
1988
Screenprint on Paper

By: Richard Estes
Born IL 1932



Visitation 
2004
Color Etching, Spit-bite, aquatint and drypoint on Paper

By:Walton Ford
Born NY 1960