January – February 2013 Volume 2, Number 5 New Editions 2012: Reviews and Listings of Important Prints and Editions from Around the World • New Section: <100 Faye Hirsch on Nicole Eisenman • Wade Guyton OS at the Whitney • Zarina: Paper Like Skin • Superstorm Sandy • News History. Analysis. Criticism. Reviews. News. Art in Print. In print and online. www.artinprint.org Subscribe to Art in Print. January – February 2013 In This Issue Volume 2, Number 5 Editor-in-Chief Susan Tallman 2 Susan Tallman On Visibility Associate Publisher New Editions 2012 Index 3 Julie Bernatz Managing Editor Faye Hirsch 4 Annkathrin Murray Nicole Eisenman’s Year of Printing Prodigiously Associate Editor Amelia Ishmael New Editions 2012 Reviews A–Z 10 Design Director <100 42 Skip Langer Design Associate Exhibition Reviews Raymond Hayen Charles Schultz 44 Wade Guyton OS M. Brian Tichenor & Raun Thorp 46 Zarina: Paper Like Skin New Editions Listings 48 News of the Print World 58 Superstorm Sandy 62 Contributors 68 Membership Subscription Form 70 Cover Image: Rirkrit Tiravanija, I Am Busy (2012), 100% cotton towel. Published by WOW (Works on Whatever), New York, NY. Photo: James Ewing, courtesy Art Production Fund. This page: Barbara Takenaga, detail of Day for Night, State I (2012), aquatint, sugar lift, spit bite and white ground with hand coloring by the artist. Printed and published by Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH. Art in Print 3500 N. Lake Shore Drive Suite 10A Chicago, IL 60657-1927 www.artinprint.org [email protected] No part of this periodical may be published without the written consent of the publisher. On Visibility By Susan Tallman Tom Burckhardt, detail of Ex Libris (2012), color etching and aquatint. Printed and published by Jennifer Melby at Melby Studios, Brooklyn, NY. ith this issue we celebrate the New Wade Guyton retrospective at the Whitney capture the range and dynamism of what W Year retrospectively, looking back this month [see page 44]. There was William is, or can be, housed under the roof of at the past twelve months and its cornu- Kentridge’s expansive “Universal Archive” “prints and editions.” As we did last year, copia of print production. The decision to this fall and Nicole Eisenman’s double we asked a dozen writers with different lodge the New Editions issue at the start of tours-de-force last spring. areas of expertise to select recent edi- the year is both notional (what better time Print—its artifacts and its strategies— tions to review. While Superstorm Sandy, to mark time?) and convenient: the profu- has become ever more central to contem- and the attendant postponement of the sion of print fairs in October and November porary art as a whole, as the world in which E|AB Fair and numerous gallery exhibi- enables Art in Print staff and writers to see we live has become ever more permeated tions, thwarted our plans somewhat, this hundreds, if not thousands, of new prints by pre-authored visual material, almost issue presents the work of more than 100 and multiples from around the world in all of it, one way or another the product of artists in three sections. The “New Edi- the space of a few days and a couple of loca- print. Wade Guyton’s vast canvases are fed tions Reviews” section beginning on page 10 tions. There was a time when an energetic through Epson printers, but like the screen- includes more than 40 short essays on new reviewer with a travel budget could cover all printed paintings of Robert Rauschenberg works by artists ranging from eminent to the major contemporary print publications and Andy Warhol, they are rarely discussed emerging. The “New Editions Listings” sec- in four days. That era is long gone. as “prints.” Warhol’s deft, daft explanation tion beginning on page 48 lists many works Events such as the Multiplied Fair was, “I suppose you could call the paintings we were unable to see in person. Finally, in London, the IFPDA Print Fair and E|AB prints, but the material used for the paint- we have added a new section, “≤100” [pages fair in New York, and INK Miami bring ings was canvas.”1 It is ironic that, in an era 42-43], in which we discuss artists’ projects exhibitors from Albuquerque to Vienna. when art theory habitually locates meaning that are available for under $100, £100, or In combination with the various concur- in process, all one needs to do to transform a €100. Some of these are mass-market, even rent gallery exhibitions, these events offer print into a painting is change the substrate. utilitarian, adaptations of art works; some a viewing opportunity that is notably rare. “Print/Out” curator Christophe Cherix are handmade, limited edition prints on For all that prints are honored as portable, observed, “Prints have become so ubiqui- paper; some occupy the cavernous ground easily distributed art—Pol Bury’s poetic tous… that they appear to have been almost in between. phrase was “rêveries postales”—they can be fully absorbed into contemporary art prac- All say something about the relationship difficult to experience in person. The dis- tice in general.”2 Absorption may suggest between technologies and instincts, pri- tribution networks for prints often end not disappearance, but one of the most talked vate thought and public distribution, and on gallery walls but in flat file drawers and about artists of the year was Nicole Eisen- the experience of living a new life in an old Solander boxes. Art in Print was founded to man, whose back-to-back exhibitions at world. address this invisibility problem, but read- the Whitney Biennial and Leo Koenig Inc. Happy New Year. ing about something is quite a different featured monotypes, woodcuts, etchings thing from standing in front of it or holding and lithographs. These were prints by any Susan Tallman is the Editor-in-Chief of it in your hand. measure—16th to 18th-century technolo- Art in Print. All said, however, 2012 was an excep- gies made to do 21st-century work; images tional year for the visibility of contem- that negotiated their way—as most of us Notes: porary printed art, from the opening of do—between cultural inheritances and 1. Andy Warhol in Gerard Malanga, “A Conversation the Museum of Modern Art’s mammoth new inventions, polished appearances and with Andy Warhol,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter, “Print/Out” exhibition in February [see Art Vol 1, No 6, January-February 1971, 127. gut responses. 2. Christophe Cherix, Print/Out: 20 Years in Print, in Print, Vol. 2, No. 1] to the closing of the With this issue, we have attempted to New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2012, 15. 2 Art in Print January – February 2013 New Editions 2012 Index Sections: Nicole Eisenman 4 Roland Fischer 20 Harland Miller 54 New Editions Reviews 10 Tony Fitzpatrick 20, 51 Hiroki Morinoue 55 < 100 42 Deborah Freedman 51 David Musgrave 55 New Editions Listings 48 Dianna Frid 21 LeRoy Neiman 55 Joe Fyfe 51 Audrey Niffenegger 55 Featured Artists: Carlos Garaicoa 21 Brian O’Doherty 29 Tomma Abts 48 Katie Goodwin 22 Toyin Odutola 29 Laurence Aëgerter 10 Mark Graver 51 Julian Opie 42 Ahmed Alsoudani 48 Brett Groves 51 Stéphane Pencréac’h 55 Anne Appleby 48 Tiago Gualberto 51 Serena Perrone 55 Wendy Artin 11 Susan Hall 51 Grayson Perry 42 Ann Aspinwall 48 Marcelle Hanselaar 51 Adrian Piper 30 John Baldessari 12, 48 Marie Harnett 23 Ged Quinn 30 Glen Baldridge 48 Kent Henricksen 52 Markus Raetz 55 Rachel Bess 48 Daniel Heyman 52 Marcus Rees Roberts 32 Peter Blake 12 Susan Hiller 52 Claudia Ryan 55 Mel Bochner 14 Charles Hinman 52 Alison Saar 55 Brent Bond 48 Mildred Howard 52 Dana Schutz 55 Paul Booth 49 Tom Huck 52 Patrick Scott 32 Eva Bovenzi 49 Patrick Hughes 23 Sean Scully 55 Martin Boyce 14 James Hugonin 52 Richard Serra 55 Sebastiaan Bremer 15 Gary Hume 24 David Shrigley 56 Catherine Brooks 49 Regin Igloria 52 James Siena 56 Brad Brown 49 Teresa James 52 Shahzia Sikander 32 Tom Burckhardt 49 Hong Seon Jang 52 Gary Simmons 33 Dale Carney 49 Jasper Johns 53 John F. Simon, Jr. 56 Alex Cerveny 49 Darina Karpov 53 Kiki Smith 34, 56 Enrique Chagoya 15 Deborah Kass 53 T.L. Solien 56 Kwang-Young Chun 16 Ellsworth Kelly 53 Sonnenzimmer 34 Chuck Close 49 Stephen Kenny 42 José Antonio Suárez Londoño 35 Carmon Colangelo 49 Jane Kent 25 Diana Sudyka 57 Paul Coldwell 50 William Kentridge 26 Barbara Takenaga 57 Matt Connors 50 Beryl Korot 53 Tobias Till 36 Michael Craig-Martin 17 David Kramer 53 Rikrit Tiravanija 42 Clare Curtis 50 Gabriel Kuri 42 Gert and Uwe Tobias 36 Karin Davie 50 Robert Kushner 53 Richard Tuttle 37, 57 Rupert Deese 18 Dominique Labauvie 54 Roy Wasson Valle w/Brent Bond 57 Tony DeLap 50 Leigh Ledare 54 Jessie Van der Laan 57 Mark Dion 50 Hung Liu 54 Robin Waart 42 Alex Dodge 50 Nicola López 54 Mark Wagner 57 Marie Yoho Dorsey 50 Nancy Macko 54 Valerie Wallace 42 Elizabeth Dove 50 Alice Maher 42 Franz West 57 Blaise Drummond 50 David Marell 54 Mia Westerlund Roosen 57 Eastern Pavilions 19 Cameron Martin 27 Roger White 57 Dave Eggers 42 Thomas Martin 42 David Wojnarowicz 57 Andrea Evans 50 Jean-François Maurige 54 Anton Würth 37 Rafael Ferrer 51 Mary Fielding McCleary 54 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye 39 Spencer Finch 19 Josiah McElheny 28 Katsutoshi Yuasa 40 Notes on the Editions: All prices are subject to change. 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