Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 23, 2007|Volume 35, Number 19

This print, titled "Island," is by Carroll Dunham, one of the artists whose works are on view in the Yale Art Gallery exhibit "Making a Mark."

Contemporary printmaking is the
focus of Yale Art Gallery symposium

A symposium on contemporary printmaking that explores such topics as the contribution of new technologies to the medium and collaboration between artists will be held at the Yale University Art Gallery on Saturday, March 3.

The symposium, titled "The Contemporary Print: Artists and Master Printers," is being offered in conjunction with the gallery's exhibits "Making a Mark: Four Contemporary Artists in Print," which is on view on the fourth floor through April 1. "Making a Mark" presents a selection of prints from the gallery's collection by Enrique Chagoya, Carroll Dunham, Jane Hammond and Kiki Smith.

Three of the artists whose work is featured in "Making a Mark" will be panelists during the symposium: Chagoya, Dunham and Smith. Printmaking plays a vital and integral role in the working processes of these artists, acting both as an extension of and in exchange with the work in their primary medium. Drawn to printmaking's inherent properties, such as multiplicity, reversal and layering, these artists engage in both traditional and non-traditional methods to explore and challenge what it means to "make a mark."

The symposium will begin with a welcome at 9:30 a.m. by Anna Hammond, deputy director for education, programs and public affairs at the gallery, in the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall of the Yale Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. At 9:45 a.m., John Lund, a master printer at Low Road Studio in Sharon will speak. His talk will be followed at 10:15 a.m. by a panel discussion featuring Dunham and Craig Zammiello, a master printer at Two Palms Press in New York. The discussion will be moderated by Wendy Weitman, an independent curator.

Chagoya and Bud Shark, director and master printer at Shark's Ink in Lyons, Colorado, will take part in a panel discussion at 11:15 a.m., moderated by Gillian Forrester, associate curator of prints and drawings at the Yale Center for British Art. At 2:15 p.m., symposium attendees will have the opportunity to choose one of three break-out sessions. These are a "Print Catalyst Program" with Chagoya and Rochelle Feinstein, professor of painting and printmaking at Yale, at the School of Art print shop in Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall, 1156 Chapel St.; an artist's talk featuring Dunham in the Duffy Study Room, on the fourth floor of the Yale Art Gallery; or a discussion titled "Jasper Johns: From Plate to Print" featuring Lund and Elizabeth DeRose, the Florence B. Selden Curatorial Assistant in the gallery's Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. The latter will take place in the Duffy Gallery, also on the fourth floor.

Weitman will moderate a second panel discussion at 3:30 p.m. in the gallery's Robert L. McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall featuring Smith and Carol Weaver, a master printer at Harlan & Weaver in New York. Following this event, Faye Hirsch, senior editor of Art in America, will moderate a panel discussion featuring Bill Goldston, director and master printer at Universal Limited Art Editions in New York; Dusica Kirjakovic, executive director of the Lower East Side Printshop in New York; Andrew Raftery, associate professor of printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a faculty fellow at the RISD Art Museum; and Andre Ribouli, a master printer at Pamplemousse Press (at Pace Editions) in New York.

A reception will conclude the event in the gallery's Jan and Frederick Mayer Lobby.

For more information on the symposium, send e-mail to elizabeth.derose@yale.edu or call (203) 432-3728.

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