Break out your Rembrandts and dust-off your Warhols, it’s time for the IFPDA Print Fair! The preview tonight was packed and the range of attendees was as broad as the range of prints. The crowd was healthy mix of people that actually represented a full range of adulthood. And mingling amongst dealers and collectors were artists, Kiki Smith and William Kentridge to name two, as well as celebrities, Morley Safer of 60 Minutes and The Office’s John Krasinski (whose appearance remained rumored but unconfirmed at the time of posting). While there were plenty of amazing Old Masters prints to be found, our tastes veered toward the contemporary…
We were just talking about this guy a few weeks back. This silkscreen features, you guessed it… diamond dust. Recession what?
Tandem Press had a number of Nicola Lopez’ Urban Transformation series mixed media print works.
A Nicola Lopez close-up. The pictures don’t really do these justice.
Some Warhol inkblot transfers at Susan Sheehan Gallery. Way out of my price range but really striking.
Lots of interesting work at London’s Alan Cristea Gallery. These are Silkscreen on Lasercut Acrylic by Bob Ritson.
Also at Alan Cristea… two of Julian Opie’s modern views of Mt. Fuji as lenticular prints. Again, much is lost in translation but these were great in person.
And Christiane Baumgartner’s woodcuts. Beautiful.
Table (Wannabe) by Richard Artschwager- a multiple in an edition of 20 at Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art.
Also at Carolina Nitsch, Sarah Sze’s lasercut multiple.
Christian Marclay cassette tape-inspired cyanotypes at USF’s Graphicstudio.
Printeresting’s very own Amze Emmons has work coupled with Skullphone in Philadelphia-based Works on Paper’s booth.
And to end approximately were we started, more Hirst at Paul Stolper. This pic doesn’t show the intensity of color or the reflective quality of these prints.
There was plenty of amazing work at the fair that didn’t make it into this post but that gives you good reason to go check it out for yourself. If not this year, then maybe next.
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Diamond dust is never real diamonds. I think real diamond dust would look like dirty powdered sugar.
Fake diamond dust at real diamond dust prices.
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