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Posted by RL Tillman on September 2nd, 2010 |  This September Mixed Greens presents a window installation by Scott Kiernan, “CMIKB,” which apparently is structured around Yves Klein’s International Klein Blue and Leap into the Void projects.
Kiernan discovered that [International Klein Blue] is impossible to reproduce digitally. However, the internet provided a wealth of approximations and as a result, Kiernan set out to create IKB in CMYK. He estimated what percentage cyan, magenta, yellow and black actually make up IKB. The result is the three identical images that comprise the window installation—one printed only in cyan, one in magenta, and the other in yellow (there is no black in IKB). Each print uses only the percentage of pigment that IKB would use.
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Posted by RL Tillman on August 25th, 2010 | A little bird just told me that the Baltimore Museum of Art is hiring a street team of ten “enthusiastic individuals” to “make appearances as Andy Warhol in his iconic fright wig and sunglasses at events throughout the Baltimore area.” PDF of the hiring description here.
Before you audition, you may wish to review some of the great film portrayals of Warhol. For my money, you can’t beat Bowie in Basquiat.
Unless, of course, you count the time Warhol played himself on The Love Boat.
Posted by RL Tillman on August 3rd, 2010 | Sometimes concept designs seem quite practical, like maybe they’re just around the corner. Take Yuexen Chen’s design for a new type of printer. The idea is that the ink cartridge itself is the printer. Everything is self-contained, and it’s recyclable. Sure, it’s only good for small prints, but the technology seems within reach:
On the other hand, there’s this dreamy concept for a “nanobot printer” by Daniel Kussmaul. It’s based on a system with four movable “base stations” for tiny CMYK nanobots that roll out and deposit the ink. An animated visualization at the designer’s website explains the system better than these photos:
  Is this really practical? I mean, you could probably get the base stations for cheap, but obviously HP would overcharge for replacement nanobots.
Posted by amze on June 15th, 2010 |
The street artist, stencil master and prankster Banksy is back in the news, this time raising a host of interesting questions about what happens to street graphics as they are brought into the art market place, in this case forcibly with a truck. In a recent tagging run in Detroit the anonymous artist tagged a wall in the abandoned Parkard Plant.
From The Detroit Free Press:
Discovered last weekend, the stenciled work shows a forlorn boy holding a can of red paint next to the words “I remember when all this was trees.” But by Tuesday, artists from the 555 Nonprofit Gallery and Studios, a feisty grassroots group, had excavated the 7-by-8-foot, 1,500-pound cinder block wall with a masonry saw and forklift and moved the piece to their grounds near the foot of the Ambassador Bridge in southwest Detroit.
Follow the jump for more pictures and quotes from the press coverage of this odd tale of an globally famous street artist versus a snarky local art collective.
Continue reading Word on the Street (Graphics)
Posted by amze on May 5th, 2010 | 
Zoe Strauss annual I-95 exhibition and print sale calls attention to the ways printmaking and photography can both use the technology of the multiple to ‘democratize’ the image in a way that can be accessible to many different types of audiences.
For years now Strauss has held an annual exhibition in under the I-95 overpass in South Philadelphia, that features her photographs of the local and overlooked, both in philadelphia and in her travels. She seems to effortlessly mix the unflinching gaze of a street photographer with the cool modernist eye of Paul Strand. Unlike many Whitney Biennial artists’ Strauss has never forgotten where she came from, and this exhibit, free and open to the public, is her way of giving something back.
As you can see the overpass columns serve as the gallery walls with color prints adhered for viewing. Each photograph is numbered and corresponds to a map of the exhibit. As you stroll through the show you can make notations on your map of which of her images you would like to take home. Back near the entrance of the event you can que up and shell out $5 dollars a pop for an 8×10″ digital print of the images that caught your fancy.
This event is both complex and generous. The primary complexity beyond the actual imagery is the way the viewer is forced to question where the value of the art resides. Is a 5 dollar printout of a Zoe Strauss photograph as valuable the C-print of the same image in a museum collection? Is the art in the image or the object? And how does that change when you are dealing with editioned works and unnumbered versions of the same editions? It’s all rather confusing. And generous in a way that seems to benefit all parties. The Whitney can have their copy in an archival vault, and so can anyone else, including perhaps one of the South Philly locals who live in these photographs and in this neighborhood. It’s an open means to eliminating the way the art market might make otherwise sincere images exploitive. To read an interview with the artist follow this link. To see more images follow the jump.
Continue reading Zoe Strauss Under I-95
Posted by amze on May 1st, 2010 | 
The picture above was taken of the members of Space 1026 dismantling their yurt from inside The Print Center. Watching them construct their trippy reading room was one of my first acts as printeresting correspondent to the festival, it seems fitting to end with this picture.
This photo also brings to mind Carl Pope’s cover for the guide book (below). He was right in one respect, Philagrafika 2010 has left the cultural producers of this town weary and in need of some much needed vacation time. But somehow the disarray never really appeared in the exhibitions or events, despite the limited budgets, very small staffs and mountains of work that all went into this truly global city-wide arts festival. Philagrafika was a very an important moment for the print world and it was a great festival for the city of Philadelphia. My only regret is that we were only able to cover the smallest portion of the programing and exhibitions from the past few months.
I could go on at some length about how and why this festival was amazing and pushed the discourse forward, etc. etc. but people don’t read blogs for long congratulatory essays, so I will keep this short:
Thank you Philagrafika 2010!
Of course, the obvious question is what’s next?
We can hardly wait!
For more specific thank yous and name drops follow the jump.
Continue reading Philagrafika 2010: THANK YOU!
Posted by amze on April 30th, 2010 | 
As part of their project with The Print Center, Philadelphia’s venerable Space 1026 produced a limited edition book to commemorate Philagrafika 2010. The volume titled, Today Is Our Day, sure is a thing of beauty. Weighing in at 12.5×9.5″ and was created in an edition of 150 totally by hand with new work Featuring brand new work by Michael Gerkovich, Bonnie Brenda Scott, Matt Leines, Alex Lukas, Bill McRight, Crystal Stokowski, Jacob Marcinek, Ben Woodward, Anni Altshur, Leah Mackin, Emilia Brintnall, James Ulmer, Kay Healy, Roman Hasiuk, Justin Myer-Staller, Clint Woodside, Kyle Schmidt, Thom Lessner, Chris Kline, Jason Hsu and Andrew Jeffrey Wright. The limited edition artist’s book will cost you only $50 (order it from the artists here), a fraction of the cost of a similarly sized iPad. While the book does not come with any apps it sure does look really cool.
I’ve included in this post as many pictures as I think our server could hold, if want to see more head over to the Space Flickr page.
Continue reading Philagrafika 2010: Space 1026, Today Is Our Day Released
Posted by jendanderson on April 27th, 2010 | 
It’s just around the corner, that day declared the day to get into your print studio and get inky! Saturday, May 1 the MPC Print Club is pushing forward with their international print day! They are asking artists to make the commitment to print somewhere, somehow, on Saturday May 1 and send a note letting them know where and when you’ll be printing. Their blog site has more details and they will let everyone know who is participating. Participants can reach out to each other, blog about it or just revel in the fact that they are all taking some time to do what we love to do – Print!
(For those of you who don’t know the MPC Print Club, they are working on hard on being the world’s coolest print club. Located in the Monterey Peninsula in California, they stay busy with club exhibitions, grass roots fundraising and the occasional field trip to Hawaii.)
Posted by A FRIEND OF PRINTERESTING on April 25th, 2010 | A guest post by Lindsay McKeighan
“Our eyes are tactile organs. We trace form, the feel of what we see; we see and remember” – S. Thorstensen
Shelley Thorstensen’s solo exhibition The Leap from Vision to Print at the Woodmere Art Museum is a Philagrafika 2010 Independent Project. The show is up from now until – July 31 2010. Thorstensen’s work observes the personal experience observing one’s conscience environment both internally and externally and in tandem. It explores the duality of mind and body with elegance and motif. Patters repeat organically. Colors pop and flow with emphasis. Mysteries present themselves in this uplifting and contemplative body of work. Visit to reflect on the joy of living, while acknowledging the impermanence we all must accept. The mediums utilized by Thorstensen include traditional: Intaglio, lithography and silkscreen layered brilliantly to expose internal and external impressions or “reflections”.
Continue reading Philagrafika 2010: Shelley Thorstensen at the Woodmere Art Museum
Posted by amze on April 23rd, 2010 | 
The Midwives Collective recently hosted a independent Philagrafika 2010 exhibition titled, Recognition , with a focus on print artists from Mexico. The exhibition featured a range artists working in innovative ways with traditional print media. Participating artists include: Per Anderson, Rogelio Azcarraga, Carmen Bordes, Pilar bordes, Edgar Cano, Jose Luis Cuevas, Segio Dominguez, Demian Flores, Ivan Gardea, Manuela Generali, Gabriela Gutierrez, Nunik Sauret, Ylanda Mora, Nuria Montiel, Paul Nevin, Alejandro Santiago, Martin Vinaver. The exhibition was curated by Nora Hiriart Litz, a Philadephia-based artist. The show also featured several excellent examples by the seminal Mexican printmaker, Jose Gudalupe Posada. There was also locally made lithographic press produced by La Ceiba Graphica, a community printshop/residency. This press is a work of locally sourced goodness, that prints lithographs using a type of marble stone found near the print shop.
Continue reading Philagrafika 2010: Midwives Gallery
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This September Mixed Greens presents a window installation by Scott Kiernan, “CMIKB,” which apparently is structured around Yves Klein’s International Klein Blue and Leap into the Void projects.
