Printmaking: Intentions and Aspirations
The idea for this Critics Page has been to have a younger group of printmakers to consider the importance of printmaking in today’s artistic world. Artists and curators of generations younger than my own have been consulted to offer inspired suggestions of who might address the following prompt:
There is a distinctive nature to making prints; and working in these processes contributes to artists’ work in other media.
- Ruth Fine, Guest Critic
Ruth Fine, the former and distinguished curator of modern art and special projects at The National Gallery of Art, called upon several artists/writers to share their thoughts about the influence of printmaking for the February issue of Brooklyn Rail. I briefly muse over proto-printmaking forms in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. It was fun connecting the dots between my obsessions with the rosetta stone, Jason Moran’s works on paper and the lessons of teaching printmaking virtually at Occidental College.