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