Imprinted: Printmaking with Pulp
May 22 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT
Visits to the Dieu Donné gallery can be requested on weekdays between the hours of 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. Dieu Donné is not open on the weekends. Upon confirmation of visit, you will be sent an entry pass to enter the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Please note we require 2-3 business days notice and schedule as availability allows.
Dieu Donne is pleased to present Imprinted, an exhibition exploring the application of printmaking techniques in hand papermaking. Coinciding with the presentation of the IFPDA Print Fair and the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, this exhibition demonstrates the longstanding exchange between the two methods. Entirely drawn from Dieu Donné’s extensive collections archive, the exhibition includes examples of etching, solvent transfers, embossing, risograph, letterpress, and screenprinting. Tammy Nguyen’s work alone includes photogravure, silkscreen, chine collé, rubber stamping, and letterpress.
Screenprinting, the most frequently featured process here, involves pushing diluted pulp “paint” through silkscreens onto a wet base sheet. The process can achieve graphic clarity at a large scale, as in Tatiana Ginsberg’s work, but it is also used by Noel W Anderson and Katharine L. DeLamater to distort imagery. Matthew Kirk and John Beech use embossing to create abstract sculptural impressions, while legendary printmaker Robert Blackburn combined etching with stenciled paper pulp to produce a grayscale composition of stacked and swirling forms. Several artists, including Lesley Dill, Alison Knowles, and Suzanne McClelland, employed various printmaking techniques to incorporate language into their work. Dieu Donné’s Founding Artistic Director, Paul Wong, augmented his handmade paper and laminate cast sculptures with diagrammatic illustrations that draw on his Chinese heritage.
At Dieu Donné, paper is more than just a substrate for other mediums. This presentation demonstrates how artists working in our studio have embedded printmaking into the paper itself.
