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April 2014
EDITIONS '14
Reception and Catalog Launch: Wednesday, May 14, 6-8 pm

Exhibition Dates: May 14 - July 13, 2014
Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am-6pm; Saturday – Sunday, 12 - 6pm
Free and open to the public

Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to present the EDITIONS ‘14 reception and catalog launch on Wednesday, May 14, from 6-8pm. The exhibition will be on view at the Printshop from May 14 – July 13, 2014. With an essay by Micaela Giovannotti, Curator at More Art, the catalog and exhibition feature new works by recipients of the Printshop’s Publishing Residencies: Heide Fasnacht, Kate Shepherd, Hank Willis Thomas, and Janaina Tschäpe.

During the past year, the artists collaborated with the Printshop’s studio team, Master Printer Erik Hougen, Printer Keigo Takahashi, and Assistant Printer Laura Charlton to create significant new bodies of work. Fully supported by the Printshop, each artist enjoyed the freedom to experiment with printmaking—a medium new to most of them—and to find their individual path. Thomas created stunning effects with an unusual retroreflective surface; Shepherd paid homage to Rembrandt by furthering her exploration of line and color; Fasnacht explored infinite possibilities of digital manipulation; while Tschäpe pursued diverse image-making techniques in a series of 83 unique screenprints.

The Publishing Residency program invites artists to collaborate with printers on ambitious new projects over a period of one year, fully sponsored by the Printshop. Awarded residents are selected through an extensive nomination process.

About the Artists
HEIDE FASNACHT (b. 1951, Cleveland, OH; lives and works in New York, NY) received her MA from New York University and BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Select solo exhibitions include Kent Fine Art, New York, NY; Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA; Pan American Gallery, Dallas, TX; and Qbox Gallery in Athens Greece. She is the recipient of fellowships from Pollock-Krasner Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Public collections include Brooklyn Museum, NY; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CO; and she is represented by Kent Fine Art in New York.

KATE SHEPHERD (b. 1961, New York, NY; lives and works in New York, NY) received her BA from Oberlin College and MFA from School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. Select solo exhibitions include Bartha Contemporary, London, England; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C; Galeria Elvira Gonzales, Madrid, Spain; and Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX. Public collections include Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; New York Public Library, New York, NY; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. Her work has been the subject of three monographs and she is represented by Galerie Lelong in New York and Paris; Antony Meier Fine Art in San Francisco; and Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston.
HANK WILLIS THOMAS (b. 1976, lives and works in New York, NY) received his BFA from New York University, MA and MFA from California College of the Arts. Select solo exhibitions include The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. His work is included in public and private collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, NY; and High Museum of Art, Atlant, GA. Thomas is the recipient of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Resident Fellowship from Harvard University and is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.

JANAINA TSCHÄPE (b. 1973, Munich, Germany; lives and works in New York, NY, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) received her BFA from the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany, and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. Select solo exhibitions include Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China; MOCA Tucson, AZ; Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil; Tierney Gardarin, New York, NY; and Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussles, Belgium. Her work is included in public and private collections including The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Harvard Art Museum, Boston, MA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. She is represented by several galleries including Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium; Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil, and Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany.

About the Essayist
MICAELA GIOVANNOTTI is a NY based independent curator. Since 2010, she has served as the curator for the not-for-profit organization More Art www.moreart.org. Born in Rome, she was U.S. Editor of Tema Celeste Contemporary Art Magazine from 2000-2006. She has curated shows in Italy, Miami, Toronto, Prague, and New York, including White Columns, White Box, and Affirmation Arts. Most recently, she curated Living and Dreaming for the Bronx Museum of the Arts and inside OUT at Cuchifritos in NY. In 2008 Giovannotti was critic-in-residence at the Art OMI International Artists Residency, NY. Extensively published in international art journals, she co-authored a book, Neo-Baroque! (Charta, 2005) and has contributed to other publications including IM02, L'Immagine Sottile, Galleria Comunale di Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy (2007), and Stefano Cagol: Public Opinion (Charta, 2011).

Lower East Side Printshop's programs have been supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Private supporters have included: Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ford Foundation - Good Neighbor Committee, ICAP / John Nixon, Jerome Foundation, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, New York Community Trust, PECO Foundation, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

We thank our volunteers, friends, members, and patrons for their dedication, support, and generosity.

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