The Washington Print Club Partners with
Pyramid Atlantic on “Mesh,”
a National Juried Exhibition
The Washington Print Club has partnered with the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and the Washington Print Foundation to announce Mesh, a nationally open, competitive, juried exhibit.
The Mesh Exhibit will be held from March 8-April 21, 2024, and hosted in the Helen C. Frederick Gallery at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.
Awards to recognize excellence among the entries include $1000 from Pyramid Atlantic Art Center for Best Overall Entry, $1000 from the Washington Print Club for Best Work on Paper, and $1000 from the Washington Print Foundation for Most Innovative Entry.
The fine art of screenprinting has primitive antecedents in prehistoric cave wall stenciled imagery. In modern times, renowned artists such as Warhol and Lichtenstein have used stencil material attached to or embedded in a mesh of fiber, metal, or synthetic plastic filaments. The process has been applied in decorative arts, textile printing, advertising posters, and street and political art. Screenprinting has a widespread current presence in commercial signage, t-shirts, ceramics, furniture, and packaging. Mesh calls on artists to consider the history of screenprinting, its technical contexts, and its diverse applications. While not excluding traditional screenprinting, the exhibition also encourages all work that might creatively intersect — or mesh — with screenprinting. Mesh opens the door wide for crossover work that utilizes screenprinting processes.
Jurors will emphasize the creative applications of the fine art of screenprinting in its pure traditional form and its intersections with other techniques.
The submission deadline is January 31. More information is available here.
Curated by WPC member Helen Frederick, Eternal Paper brings together 20 artists who have collaborated to create hand-formed art in and on paper. Helen will lead gallery walks through the exhibition at noon on January 18, February 15, March 21, April 18, and May 16. RSVPs are not necessary, but please feel free to do so by emailing Helen. The exhibition includes work by WPC members Soledad Salamé, Helen Frederick, Randi Reiss-McCormack, and Gretchen Schermerhorn. More information about the exhibition is available here.
Carol Barsha will have an exhibition of her work at Gallery Neptune & Brown. Opening reception on March 9. 5:00-7:00 pm.
Jacqueline Crocetta, Elzbieta Sikorska, and June Linowitz have work in the McLean Project for the Arts exhibition, Moving Beyond Beauty: Reverence and Reclamation. The exhibition runs through until February 17.
WPC board member Laura Roulet is curating the upcoming Katzen Arts Center exhibition The Human Flood, which features the work of Sondra Arkin and Ellyn Weiss. Opening February 7.
Caroline Thorington’s work is on view in an exhibition of works on paper, The County Collects IV: Faces in Spaces, at the Kramer Gallery, Silver Spring. Other artists in the exhibition include Lila Oliver Asher, Preston Sampson, and Kate Kretz. Until February 9. More information here.
From Susan Goldman of Lily Press:
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose Gallery, Of Homage or of Hope, works on paper by Brian Dupont and paintings by Nathan Mullins. January 31 – March 1.
Addison/Ripley, Stefanie Stark: The Strength of Her, January 20 – February 24.
Conrad GraeberFine Art will be a participating dealer at the Print Club of Cleveland Fine Art Fair, April 26 – 28.
Gallery Neptune & Brown, A celebration of 45 years of the Robert Brown gallery featuring work by Mel Bochner, William Kentridge, linn meyers, Joseph Solman, Max Beckman, Hannelore Baron, Oleg Kudryashov, Fifo Striker, and David Nash. Opening reception January 20, 5:00-7:00. On view through March 2.
Hemphill,Willem de Looper Paintings: 1972-1975, January 27-March 2.
Morton Fine Art,Works on paper by a variety of artists, January 4 – February 10.
Pyramid AtlanticCatalunya, Works in colored pulp by Lynn Sures. Opening reception January 26, 6:00-8:00 pm. The exhibition runs until February 18.
Washington Printmakers Gallery Emerging Impressions (at the Georgetown neighborhood library). Opening reception January 17, 6:00-7:30 pm at 3260 R Street, NW. Information about WPG’s winter workshops and classes here.
Also of Interest
Cody Gallery, Under Foot, an exhibition of drawings by Lara Call Gastinger, Margaret Saylor, and Carol Woodin. Artists’ talk and opening reception January 18. More information here.
National Gallery of Art, Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840-1940. Until February 4.
National Gallery of Art, Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, until March 31.
National Gallery of Art, Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, until March 31.
National Gallery of Art, The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and its Legacy, February 11 – May 27.
National Museum of Asian Art, Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change, until May 4.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Holding Ground: Artists’ Books for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, until October, 2024.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Impressive: Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella. A series of 25 prints engraved in 1675 and published in 1787. Until October 20.
Artist Renee Stout will be doing a gallery talk at the National Gallery of Art on her work on paper currently on view at the NGA. March 9, 1:00 pm.
New Member Welcome
Please join us in offering a warm welcome to new member Gail Singer.
Gail shares, “My professional history spans costume design, museum exhibits, wearable art, and lastly, assisting in museum textile conservation for over a decade. After retiring in 2005 with a sense of fresh inspiration, I rediscovered printmaking, a buried interest I had briefly explored while in college. Now, my lifelong love of detail found a new path through the niche of intaglio and its process, eventually incorporating chine colle and collage, the same embellishment tool I used in earlier wearable art pieces. Collage brought me full circle, this time with paper: cutting, tearing, marrying enticing scraps into my etchings.
More recently, I was inspired to explore monotype, applying color with swift abandon across a plate– so unlike the intricacy of etching. While these pieces can stand alone, they also invite collage, merging their broad strokes with my detailed prints. Always in love with process, I think of my artworks as celebrations–works on paper as games of chance, of surprise, of puzzling out bits of this and that–serious play at my fingertips.”
Save the Date
February 17, 11:00 am. A visit to Lily Press with artist and founding director Susan Goldman and artist Eve Stockton.