My Happy Places

Dear Artists,

I'm writing from NYC, which exploded with printmaking this weekend with the Brooklyn Print Fair (where I did tours + a panel) and the IFPDA fair.

You can pick up a $32,000 print by German expressionist Erich Heckel or a $250,000 print by contemporary artist Nicole Eisenman. I need to level up on selling my art!

IFPDA is different than the average art fair because in addition to contemporary art, there are many galleries where you could purchase a monotype by Degas, or an Albrecht Dürer engraving.

I remember being so baffled by this when I first went in 2003, I could just walk in there and buy a Käthe Kollwitz print? I thought that only museums could acquire historial work!

You also discover artists who you would never think to search for. Algorithms will never serve up what you can stumble upon at an art fair.

This Pavlos (Pavlos Dionyysopoulos) is an original, hand signed, dated, and numbered printed paper and wood panel multiple with perspex, in an edition of 19.

People often think about printmaking as a 2D media, but there is great sculptural potential with printmaking, and lots of cross over into book binding and paper making.

When I look at prints in person, I look closely for the impression of a copper plate into the rag paper (intaglio printmaking) but also how some ink applications can feel like a relief.

At the Brooklyn Print Fair, the standout was this Alex Dodge print, Between Mnemosyne and Lethe which was printed with an ink that was raised and shiny, as if the tiles in the scene were actual tiles sitting on the paper.

Alex Dodge worked with master printer Luther Davis and his crew at the silkscreen shop at Powerhouse Arts. Luther calls the Brooklyn Print Fair "print prom," except that everyone is nice and you don't have to buy a hideous dress.

Our next free workshop is for Self-Taught Artists on Sunday, April 26, 7-8:30pm EST, let's chat on voice together!

The workshop will be on Zoom, and be sure to register by Thurs April 23.

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xoxo Prof Lieu

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