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Posted by RL Tillman on March 9th, 2010 | Long-time readers will remember that Printeresting was originally launched as “the thinking person’s favorite online resource for Jeff Bridges-related printmaking miscellany.” Well, despite our best efforts, that just wasn’t a sustainable business model.
But with an Academy Award in hand and a long-awaited Tron sequel in the works, Bridges is back in the news! So it’s time for a Jeff Bridges Print Update!
Oscars, Schmoscars! You have not “made it” until you have your own Shepard Fairey Parody Poster:
And a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is nothing compared to Another Shepard Fairey Parody Poster:
But then, there’s no shortage of Big Lebowski print merchandise. Why would there be, when it all sells out?
Tyler Stout Screenprint, SOLD OUT!
 Mediocre “Team Dude” Bowling Shirt, SOLD OUT!
The merchandise may sell out, but Jeff Bridges never will. Even when Jeff Bridges designed these T-Shirts for Quiksilver, a portion of the proceeds went to charity. Way to go, Dude!
I strongly encourage any Museum Curators to acquire this “Museum Quality Fine Art Print”:
Surprisingly, that’s all the Jeff Bridges Print News I could find. The marketing team for Crazy Heart could have used a country-style Hatch Show Print-inspired design, but they didn’t. And as far as I can tell, nobody’s producing limited edition lithographs of his insane drawings.
Surely there will be more news in the next… Jeff Bridges Print Update!*
*NOTE: There will not be a next Jeff Bridges Print Update.
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Posted by amze on March 8th, 2010 | 
Who Doesn’t love bound printed stuff? The Print Center sponsored Open Book as a way to model ideas addressed in their Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious exhibition. Needless to say most attendees walked away with a stack of books and Temporary Services (above) did their best to make sure no one walked away empty handed.
The Print Center describes the event:
This event will bring together the artist collectives Space 1026 and Temporary Services, who will be joined by the artists’ bookstore Printed Matter. Each will give presentations on their publications and how they relate to their artistic practice. It will be a wonderful opportunity to collect books, meet the artists and have them personally inscribe their books.
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Posted by amze on March 1st, 2010 | 
The Philagrafika 2010: Graphic Unconscious exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy for the Fine Arts (PAFA) is amazing. Curator, Julien Robson makes excellent use of large, well lit new gallery. The Philagrafika site describes the curatorial project below:
..[At] PAFA The Graphic Unconscious presents the work of seven international artists who take conventionally recognized mediums and treat them in new and imaginative ways. Working with woodcuts, Christiane Baumgartner and Orit Hofshi realize the woodcut’s potential on an immense scale, while the Indonesian artist group Tromarama turns each cut of the wooden panel into the frame of a stop-motion animation. Mark Bradford collages together found posters and then sands this surface to excavate other forms of information hidden underneath, while Pepón Osorio prints on confetti in a work that turns two-dimensional print into three-dimensional sculpture. Kiki Smith collages lithographs on handmade paper into large-scale poetic works, while Qui Zhijie carves traditional Chinese calligraphy from concrete blocks that, after being printed, stand as sculptures in their own right alongside the wall-hung images.
(Post is now updated with some new images.)
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Posted by amze on March 1st, 2010 | 
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is one of the Graphic Unconscious sites for Philagrafika 2010. The exhibition there, while modest in it’s square footage, comprises some of the most interesting conceptual work in the related exhibitions. The curatorial statement on the Philagrafika site describes the show, expertly curated by Shelley Langdale, below:
Concepts of imprinting, multiplicity, reproduction, and seriality, as well as printed images and print techniques are frequently used by artists who do not think of themselves as printmakers. As artistic vocabularies have expanded and mixing media has become commonplace, artists have increasingly drawn from inherent characteristics of the print to achieve specific aesthetic and expressive goals.
In keeping with its role as a major repository of the work of Marcel Duchamp, the “father” of Conceptual Art, the museum will feature exhibitions by two artists who translate aspects of printmaking into other mediums, pushing the conceptual boundaries typically associated with the print. Óscar Muñoz explores the ephemeral implications of the imprint with two projects: a new installation of portraits printed in pigment floating on water (shown in-process) and a suite of video portraits that involve a variation of this innovative printing technique. Using imagery inspired by Japanese cultural sources that range from traditional woodcuts to contemporary comics and animations, Tabaimo continues her examination of the complexities of everyday life with the U.S. debut of a 2007 video installation.
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Posted by amze on March 1st, 2010 |
About Ali by Daniel Heyman
If you are looking for something fun to do on Tuesday March 9th, head on over Warning: Graphic Content presented by First Person Arts and the Bryn Mawr Film Institute.
Mixing printmaking, comics, memoir and animation this should be an entertaining event. This multimedia presentation explores the genre of the graphic memoir across multiple forms. Three leading artists–Daniel Heyman, Jamar Nicholas, and Josh Neufeld – will present their work and discuss how they create it. A screening of the film Persepolis, based on the graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi, will follow the discussion.
Posted by RL Tillman on February 14th, 2010 | 
“States United,” xylene transfer by Gregory Beauchamp
“Valentine,” intaglio print by Mary Heilmann
 “Dreamboat,” woodcut by Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth (Tugboat Printshop)
 valentines by David Sandlin, commissioned by Printed Matter
 “Heart,” woodcut and silkscreen by Tate Foley
 “RANCHO WOODCUT HEART,” woodcut by Jim Dine
“Tears From the Heart” arcade devotional fountain by Rhonda Ratray
 “Matters of the Heart,” screenprint by Jenny Beorkrem (Ork Posters)
 “Purple Heart,” photo-etching by Julio Nazario
“Sleeping Heart,” screenprint by Timothy Karpinski
“St. Valentines,” linoleum cut by Chad Andrews
 “Your Heart is a Prism,” offset print by Peter Glantz, Becky Stark, and Jacob Ciocci
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY TO ALL OUR FRIENDS! WE LOVE YOU ALL!
Posted by RL Tillman on February 13th, 2010 | NBC has a little gallery of Winter Olympics posters. This one is the weirdest:
Posted by RL Tillman on February 12th, 2010 | Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor dark of night shall keep the Government Printing Office from its appointed rounds. Said Public Printer Bob Tapella:
“Our employees are among the most dedicated workforce one could find. I am extremely proud of the effort GPO put in during these snowstorms to meet the deadlines of Congress and The White House. Inclement weather will not prevent GPO from meeting the needs of our customers and from Keeping America Informed on the documents of our democracy.”
Clearly they were inspired by the words of Beatrice Warde, which are displayed at the GPO:
 PRINTERS ARE STRONG!
Posted by A FRIEND OF PRINTERESTING on February 5th, 2010 | 
Guest Post by Jena Osman.
Last night Philagrafika officially initiated its Out of Print component with a reception for Duke Riley and his project Reclaiming the Lost Kingdom of Laird. The Out of Print series has commissioned artists who are deeply engaged with history to work with research documents found in one of five amazing archival repositories in Philadelphia. The research for Riley’s project came from print materials housed in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and focused on Petty’s Island—a little known island situated between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey in the middle of the Delaware River. The island is not open to the public (it’s owned by Citgo and is populated by fuel storage tanks), but that didn’t stop Riley from investigating the landscape firsthand.
In his historical research he discovered that in the mid-19th century, the island was inhabited by caretaker and pig farmer Ralston Laird, his wife, and ten children. Laird and his family were eventually forced to leave, and it is this fact that inspired Riley’s project. In Riley’s interpretation, Laird was the victim of foul play, exiled from his lawful kingdom. Riley takes it upon himself to pay homage to “the royal ancestors of the Laird kingdom” and to document a massive intervention created by the Laird Kingdom Liberation Army.
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Posted by amze on February 5th, 2010 | 
Last weekend presented too many great exhibitions to sort through the experience at once, hence this delayed posting about The Print Center’s opening event. As a Graphic Unconscious site for Philagrafika 2010. The Print Center chose to focus on Print in the Public Sphere. From the curatorial statement on the Philagrafika 2010 description:
The exhibition will include three major newly commissioned works. One is a dramatic reorganization of The Print Center’s three gallery spaces by the Philadelphia-based collective Space 1026. Their installation will create modular systems for viewing and reading printed works, as well as places to meet and hold programs. There will also be an onsite printing project incorporating images chosen by the public by Mexican artist Erick Beltrán. Texas-based artist Eric Avery will be creating a printed installation in The Print Center’s restroom, which will offer information on emerging infectious diseases. The exhibition will also include new works and programs by Bitterkomix, Sue Coe, Julius Deutschbauer, Dexter Sinister, Dispatch, Drive By Press, Eloísa Cartonera, Art Hazelwood, Jenny Schmid, Self Help Graphics & Art, Temporary Services, and others.
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