Category: Exhibitions

Salon Zürcher offers visitors an intimate alternative to the large-scale, superstore style fairs during the The Armory Show and Frieze in New York City and FIAC in Paris. Zürcher Gallery is located in New York’s NoHo / East Village neighborhood, in walking distance from the the New Museum, Lower East Side and TriBeCa art scenes. Since 2011, we have hosted 22 mini-art fairs between our two galleries, which have been major successes for all the exhibitors. The Salon has been covered in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Artnet News, Hyperallergic, Art Fag City, ArtNews GalleristNY, The Art Newspaper, Fine Art Magazine blog, Zingrecs, NewYork.com Readartny.com, Nyartbeat, Hamptonsarthub.com, Arthaps, and more.

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on view at IPCNY’s New Prints 2017 Winter exhibition

Pests of Public Importance, 2017, edition 126
3 x 2.25 inch woodcut and letterpress boustrophedon accordion book
April Vollmer: woodcut
Esther K. Smith: concept, book structure, design
Dikko Faust: letterpress, typesetting
Publisher: Purgatory Pie Press
With an eponymous poem by Georgia Luna Smith Faust
available from Purgatory Pie Press
Dikko Printing on his Vandercook
Also available uncut as a flat print in an edition of 40

Mosquitos carry zika, yellow fever, dengue, malaria and more. The importance of these pests has increased with the combination of transcontinental travel and global warming. Mosquito species evolved for every ecological niche in our interconnected world. Their power is in their numbers and their power of replication, reflected in the woodcut print with its rhythm of insects framed with a repeating classical palmette frieze.

Rochester Contemporary Art Center
September 2 – 25, 2016
Opening Reception: September 2, 6-9pm
Artist Talk: September 3, 1pm

Featuring new and recent artworks by:
Ellen Heck, Jenny Robinson, April Vollmer, Heather Swenson

Under Pressure: Redefining the Multiple is the first in a new series of collaborations between Rochester Contemporary Art Center and The Print Club of Rochester. Including national and regional artists, this exhibition reflects the ongoing efforts of the Print Club of Rochester to recognize a paradigm shift in how prints are considered and the expansion of the definition of print media.

Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) is a venue for the exchange of ideas and a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) that was founded in 1977. As a center for thoughtful contemporary art, RoCo provides unique encounters for audiences and extraordinary opportunities for artists.

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Impressions of the Natural World: Japanese Prints from the Special Collections Division

On Saturday, May 21, from 2-4pm, the noted mokuhanga artist April Vollmer will present a lecture and demonstration

of the printing process at the Main Library. Participants will be able to try printing from woodblocks. This lecture/workshop is limited to 20 participants.

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2016 CWAJ Special Print Exhibition

Intimate Dimensions
September 26-October 16, 2016
11 am to 7 pm (5 pm Weekends)
Tokyo American Club B1F, Frederick Harris Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

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Kentler International Drawing Space, founded in 1990, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing contemporary drawings and works on paper by emerging and under-recognized national and international artists to the public, and to providing the opportunity to experiment, explore and expand the definition of art in society. Our programs include Exhibitions & Events, K.I.D.S. Art Education and The Kentler Flatfiles.

100 Works on Paper benefit, May 21, 2016

February 19 to April 18, 2014
Abstract American Mokuhanga, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
co-curated by Keiko Hara & Akira Takemoto

Exhibition Catalogue

[From 1996 to 2016 I demonstrated Japanese woodblock technique to crowds of garden visitors at the Cherry Blossom Festival, culminating in an exhibition of botanical work at the Steinhart Gallery in 2008.]

Sunday, April 27 from 1:30 to 2:15  Main Auditorium

Since 1996 these yearly demonstrations have been an opportunity for the public to gain an understanding of the technical skill that goes into traditional Japanese printing, mokuhanga. It is a water-based woodblock method printed by hand, moku means wood, and hanga can be roughly translated as printmaking. It is the technique that was used to make the famous ukiy0-e “prints of the floating world.” Developed during the Edo period (1603-1868), this woodblock technique was used to print everything from books to advertisements, including the prints of Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro. The artists supplied the drawings and a group of expert craftsmen, organized by a publisher, cut the blocks and printed the color blocks one at a time to create these wonderful Japanese prints.

For more information visit the Garden’s website Brooklyn Botanic Garden website