Biennial 2009

Warrington Colescott,Imperium

Warrington Colescott, Imperium: Down in the Green Zone, etching, 17″ x 24″, Purchase Prizes, The Ture Bengtz Memorial Prize Collection: The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury

 

Chadwick Tolley, spilt milk

Chadwick Tolley, Spilt Milk, etching, 12″ x 15″, Purchase Prizes, The C. G. Metals Prize Collection: C. G. Metals

 

Mark Hosford, Waiting..

Mark Hosford, The Waiting Game, screenprint, 13.25″ x 21″, Purchase Prizes, The Graphic Chemical Prize Collection: Graphic Chemical

 

Karen Kunc, Orb

Karen Kunc, Orb Weaving, woodcut, 18″ x 18″, Purchase Prizes, The Boston Printmakers 60th Anniversary Prize Collection: The Worcester Art Museum

 

Butt Johnson, Veduta Del Casteli

Butt Johnson, Veduta Di Castello del Greyskull, lithograph, 15″ x 18″, Purchase Prizes The Boston Printmakers Prize Collection: The Boston Public Library

 

Neil Shigley, Eddie 51

Neil Shigley, Eddie 51, plexiglass block print on paper, mounted on canvas, 48″ x 36″ x 2″

 

Toni_Damkoehler_44173

Toni Damkoehler, The Captain, inkjet print, 60″ x 30″

THE BOSTON PRINTMAKERS 2009 NORTH AMERICAN PRINT BIENNIAL

EXHIBITION DATES: February 15 – March 29, 2009

LOCATION: 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA

LIST OF ACCEPTED ARTISTS

JUROR’S STATEMENT
Roberta Waddell, Curator Emerita, The New York Public Library
My comments about this year’s Biennial can only suggest how exciting and rewarding it was to review the submissions, more prints and books than I could otherwise have seen in years of portfolio reviews and visits to galleries and museums. From among those entries, but for space constraints, I could have selected not just one, but two strong shows. I am grateful to the Executive Board of the Boston Printmakers for their continuing commitment to the North American Print Biennial, which can answer any and all questions about the state of printmaking today. The answer: printmaking is alive, well, and thriving, and the proof is amply evident and on view in Gallery 808.

INVITE

At her lecture before the opening reception, juror Roberta Waddell discussed and illustrated each piece she had chosen for the 2009 Biennial.
Read her remarks

FULL BIENNIAL CATALOG

2009 Awards:
Selection of the Juror

Purchase Prizes

The Boston Printmakers Prize
Collection: The Boston Public Library
Butt Johnson, Veduta Di Castello del Greyskull, lithograph

The Boston Printmakers 60th Anniversary Prize
Collection: The Worcester Art Museum
Karen Kunc, Orb Weaving, woodcut

The C. G. Metals Prize
Collection: C. G. Metals
Chadwick Tolley, Spilt Milk, etching

The Graphic Chemical Prize
Collection: Graphic Chemical
Mark Hosford, The Waiting Game, screenprint

The Otis Philbrick Memorial Prize
Collection: The Fogg Museum of Fine Arts
David Avery, The Long Road to War, etching

The Ture Bengtz Memorial Prize
Collection: The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury
Warrington Colescott, Imperium: Down in the Green Zone, etching

Materials Awards

Atlantic Papers, Ivyland, PA
Thomas Wood, Mermaid Hunters, etching, aquatint
James Mundie, P 1535 (Two-headed Boy of Bengal), woodcut

Dolphin Papers, Indianapolis, IN
Jon Cartledge, Portrait of T., screenprint
Eric Goldberg, Footbridge Still Life, hand-colored etching

Hunt’s Photo & Video, Melrose, MA
Annie Bissett, Borders #1 – U.S./Mexico, Japanese-style woodblock print
Nathan Catlin, It Happened In A Dream (Part 3) It Moved to My Face, reduction woodblock print

Legion Paper, New York, NY
Victor Romao, Self Portrait As Brown Bat, woodcut
David Williams, Jellyfish?, etching

Magnesium Elektron NA, Inc., Plymouth, MA
K. K. Kozik, Force Majeure, etching, aquatint

McClain’s Printmaking Supplies, King City, OR
Elizabeth Uryase, Algae Mix, intaglio, woodcut

Mixit Print Studio, Somerville, MA
David Curcio, History, etching, woodcut, embroidery and stitching

Muskat Studios, Somerville, MA
Anita Hunt, Dissolution I, drypoint, spitbite aquatint

Portfoliobox, Inc., Pawtucket, RI
Whitney Calvert, 30th Street Station, intaglio

Savoir Faire/Charbonell, Novato, CA
Ellen Price, Saint John’s, paper plate lithograph
Jenny Freestone, Vessel 2, Third State, direct gravure, roulette

Singer Editions, Boston MA
Laurie Sloan, Untitled 1, ink jet print