Printmaking
1 August - 25 August, 2007
Opening on Thursday August 2, 6-8 pm
Art has for a long time been categorized by the process of its production. Paintings are painted, drawings drawn. Contemporary printmaking therefore becomes a catch-all term for hundreds of techniques in which there is a technological intermediary. Negatives, templates, and chunks of wood are reinterpreted through machinery- a kind of necessary yet forced collaboration. Artists plan and edit while inkjet printers, light sensitive papers and heavy steel rollers print. The result is a blend of process and concept, the union of sensitivity and automated indifference.
This exhibition of Melbourne-based artists is an investigation into the current state of printmaking. By highlighting the diversity and scope of the discipline its commonalities come to the fore: issues of tradition versus innovation, registration and interface, appropriation and the multiple. These ideas echo throughout the work, and yet they are a similarity which each artist approaches and answers in a different way.
The following established and up-and-coming artists are featured in this show:
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Exhibition Images |
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Julia Silvester, Panorama | |
Jazmina Cinanas, Rima Knows The Curse | |
Damon Kowarsky, Mask 14 | |
Ruth Johnstone, Garland I | |
Clare Humphries, Surrogate Object #7 | |
Sophia Szilagyi, Before I Sleep | |
Alexis Beckett, Blue List | |
Yandell Walton, Windows | |
Peter Lancaster, Casino | |
Jazmina Cinanas, The Asylum Is No Place For A Werewolf | |
Sophia Szilagyi, All Was Quiet | |
Laura DiFlorio, Untitled (detail) | |
Damon Kowarsky, Mask 19 | |
Peter Lancaster , Afloat | |
Jazmina Cinanas, St. Genevieve | |
 Sophia Szilagyi, The Woods Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep (detail) | |
Damon Kowarsky, Mask 12 | |
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