FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2019 IPCNY SPRING BENEFIT AUCTION NOW LIVE ON ARTSY Spring Benefit Dinner Will Honor Nicole Eisenman, Richard S. Field, and Harlan & Weaver Award Presenters: Mel Bochner, James Siena and Kiki Smith, and Faye Hirsch Benefit Co-Chairs: Timothy Peterson & Richard Gerrig and Anders Bergstrom Master of Ceremonies: Richard Lloyd, International Head, Prints & Multiples, Christie’s Carroll Dunham. Untitled, 2008. Etching and aquatint. 25 x 20 inches. Edition 6/31. Printed and published by Harlan & Weaver, NY. Nicole Eisenman. The Met, 2012. Etching and aquatint. 20 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. PP 4/5 from an edition of 20. Printed and published by Harlan & Weaver, NY. Liliana Porter. The Garden, 2006. Digital embroidery on embroidered fabric, silk rose. 24 x 21 inches. AP from an edition of 6. Printed by Judith Solodkin; published by SOLO Impressions Inc. Each © 2019 the artist. New York, NY (May 13, 2019) – International Print Center New York is pleased to announce an auction organized in conjunction with its 13th annual Spring Benefit Dinner, now live on Artsy. Featuring 33 works representing a range of artists, printers, and donors that have come together in support of IPCNY, including works by Benefit honorees Nicole Eisenman and Harlan & Weaver, Louise Bourgeois, Carroll Dunham, Jasper Johns, William Kentridge, Katia Santibañez, James Siena, Kiki Smith, William Villalongo, and Stanley Whitney, among others. Bidding will be open through the Spring Benefit Dinner on May 22, where the works will be on view, with the opportunity to bid online at artsy.net/ipcny-benefit. On Wednesday, May 22, 2019, at Tribeca Rooftop, 2 Desbrosses Street, IPCNY celebrates the visionary careers of artist Nicole Eisenman; Richard S. Field, retired Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery; and New York-based printshop and publisher Harlan & Weaver, co-founded by Felix Harlan and Carol Weaver. Eisenman’s award will be presented by Faye Hirsch, Ph.D., writer, critic, and Associate Professor, Art+Design, Purchase College, SUNY, who has written about Eisenman’s work in Art in America and Art in Print. Artist Mel Bochner will present the award to Richard S. Field, the curator of Bochner’s first solo museum exhibition Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 1966–1973 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1995). Harlan & Weaver’s award will be presented by artists and longtime collaborators James Siena and Kiki Smith, who both began working with Harlan & Weaver in the 1990s. Eisenman began working with Harlan & Weaver in 2011. As IPCNY’s largest annual fundraiser, the Spring Benefit Dinner brings together artists, curators, museum leaders, printers, publishers, and philanthropists dedicated to the collaborative and expansive field of artist’s prints. This year, the event coincides with IPCNY’s highly-anticipated exhibition Pulled In Brooklyn, which features a broad selection of prints by honoree Nicole Eisenman. Eisenman’s profound and varied printmaking informs her broader artistic practice across mediums. Her work combines a deep understanding of art historical traditions with elements drawn from her personal life, incorporating the banal, political, satirical, and queer. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2019 Arts patrons and contemporary collectors Timothy Peterson and Richard Gerrig as well as IPCNY Trustee and Hauser & Wirth Director of Editions Anders Bergstrom are Co-Chairs of the event. Artist attendees will include Alex Dodge, Joanne Greenbaum, Nicola López, Josiah McElheny, Claes Oldenburg, Sheryl Oppenheim, Katia Santibañez, Kiki Smith, and Terry Winters, among many others dedicated to the medium. Noted gallerists will join from Anton Kern Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Carolina Nitsch, and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Sidney Felsen of Gemini G.E.L, Larissa Goldston of Universal Limited Art Editions, Evie and David Lasry of Two Palms, Ann Marshall and Jean-Paul Russell of Durham Press, and Dick Solomon of Pace Prints are among the many renowned print publishers to attend. Among the over 300 guests in attendance will be Pulled In Brooklyn co-curators Roberta Waddell and Samantha Rippner, as well as many talented Brooklyn printers on exhibition currently at IPCNY, including Luther Davis, Andrew Mockler, Marina Ancona, and Jennifer Melby. For tables and tickets visit ipcny.org/benefit2019, call 212-989-5090, or email [email protected]. SILENT AUCTION PREVIEW Bid through May 22, 10:30 PM at artsy.net/ipcny-benefit Katia Santibañez and James Siena, William Kentridge. The Head & The Load, Stanley Whitney, Yellow Changing, 2011. Fourhand Choker, 2018. Reduction 2018. Digital pigment print. 25 5/8 x 26 3/4 Aquatint. 16 x 15 inches. AP, edition of 20. woodcut. 23 1/2 x 19 inches. Edition: 22. inches. Edition: 40. Printed by Lightfarm, Printed by Felix Harlan & Carol Weaver; Printed and published by Shore Publishing. Johannesburg; published to benefit William published by Harlan & Weaver. Donated Donated by the artists and publisher in Kentridge's The Head & the Load at the by the artist in honor of Harlan & Weaver. honor of Harlan & Weaver. © the artists. Park Avenue Armory. Donated by Diana © the artist. Wege in honor of IPCNY. © the artist. Powered by For Press Inquiries: Allison Rodman Relations: [email protected], 914-715-9794 Sari Weisenberg: External Affairs Coordinator, [email protected], 212-989-5090 International Print Center New York is New York’s flagship non-profit arts institution dedicated to the innovative presentation of prints by emerging, established, national, and international artists. Founded in 2000, the print center is a vibrant hub and exhibition space located in New York’s Chelsea gallery district. IPCNY’s artist- centered approach engages the medium in all its varied potential, and includes guest-curated exhibitions that present dynamic, new scholarship as well as biannual New Prints open calls for work created in the last twelve months. A lively array of public programs engages audiences more deeply with the works on display. A 501(c)(3) institution, IPCNY depends on foundation, government, and individual support, as well as members’ contributions, to fund its programs. Launched in 2007, the Spring Benefit Dinner is IPCNY’s most significant annual fundraiser and New York City’s largest celebration of achievements in the print field. Past artist honorees include Dorothea Rockburne (2018), Jim Dine (2017), John Baldessari (2016), Julie Mehretu (2015), Richard Tuttle (2014), Robert Mangold (2013), Claes Oldenburg (2012), Terry Winters (2011), James Rosenquist (2010), Vija Celmins (2009), Ed Ruscha (2008), and Ellsworth Kelly (2007). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2019 Corporate Sponsor: Media Sponsors: ABOUT THE HONOREES One of the most important artists to emerge from New York in the 1990s, Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965, Verdun, France) has developed a distinct figurative language that combines a deep understanding of art historical tradition with elements drawn from her personal life. Eisenman first experimented with printmaking in college, but it wasn’t until 2011, after years of painting, that she spent a year dedicated to the medium, which led to her sustained commitment. Eisenman’s prints are wide-ranging, making use of intaglio, lithography, woodcut, monotype, and screenprint. Living and working in Brooklyn, Eisenman collaborates with printers at local workshops, including Harlan & Weaver, 10 Grand Press, and Jungle Press Editions. She has also worked independently at the Women’s Studio Workshop in upstate New York. Eisenman was the recipient of a Carnegie Prize in 2013, a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. She is the winner of the 2020 Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize, which will result in a catalogue and a solo exhibition at The Contemporary Austin and at FLAG in New York. Her new monograph Baden Baden Baden was published on the occasion of her recent solo exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2018). Other recent solo museum exhibitions include Dark Light, Secession, Vienna (2017); Al-ugh-ories, New Museum, New York (2016); and Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993–2013, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2014). Her work will be included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and 2019 Venice Biennale. Eisenman’s work is represented by Anton Kern Gallery in New York, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Los Angeles, and Galerie Barbara Weiss in Berlin. Richard S. Field has been a scholar, curator, professor, and advocate for the print field for more than six decades. An alumnus of Phillips Exeter Academy, Field received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. After serving as the National Gallery of Art’s curator at the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at Alverthorpe Gallery in Jenkintown, PA, Field was Assistant Curator of Prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1969–72); Curator at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (1972–79); and Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Associate Director at the Yale University Art Gallery (1979– 2000). His long and wide-ranging career began with a dissertation on Paul Gauguin and has extended from the study of Dürer, to Félix Vallotton, Jasper Johns, Richard Hamilton, and research on screenprinting. Field’s publications on Rosenwald’s great collection of fifteenth-century European woodcuts and on the productions of Tatyana Grosman’s Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), defined much of his career. He has continued his research on early