Manhattan Graphics Center

fall2015Printmaking Weekend Intensives  Follow up and discover new tools and methods. HAPPENING SOON - STILL TIME TO REGISTER!:   Weekend Intensive   SILK AQUATINT    Instructor: Kathy Caraccio    OCTOBER 24 and 25   Saturday & Sunday, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm             Weekend Intensive   ENGRAVING IN COPPERPLATE   Instructor: Anton Würth  OCTOBER 31 and November 1   Saturday & Sunday, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm CHECK OUT ALL OF OUR SHORT CLASSES ON OUR WEBSITE.  OUR NEW REGISTRATION PAGES ARE EASY TO USE.

ON VIEW IN THE PROJECT SPACE  JOIN US AT THE CLOSING RECEPTION  THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 at 6:30 PM  ALL WELCOME! ENJOY SOME REFRESHMENTS & CHECK OUT THE SHOW.  Young Artists  from Gramercy Arts High School Manhattan Early College of Advertising (MECA) and The High School of Art and Design  Danielle McDuffie, student at High School of Art and Design   Student at Gramercy Arts High School

ON VIEW IN THE GALLERY Abby DuBow  Divergencies An exhibition of New Work  October 3-30, 2015  Discards  series of mixed media monotypes on library cards, each 5" x 12"

Online Gallery: For MGC Members We have updated our Online Gallery design and are accepting submissions of images, artist biographies and artist statements. We encourage all our members to participate! Send your materials to:m_kerni@hotmail.com  View the Guidelines using this link to our website.

Tracklights: MGC Member News  Beth Ganz  will be exhibiting her prints and paintings in two shows in New York City. She will participate in OPEN STUDIOS 2015 at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts at 323 West 39th Street, in Studio 703. Opening Night is Thursday, October 22 from 6 to 10 pm, and the event continues on Friday, October 23, 6 to 9 pm, and Saturday, October 24 from 1 to 6 pm. Beth is showing work also in Enchanted Landscapes, a group exhibition of eleven artists, at The Curator Gallery / Chelsea, 520 West 23rd Street. The exhibition is curated by Rebecca Michelman. A Private Preview will take place on Wednesday, October 21, from 6 to 8 pm. Please RSVP to natalie@thecuratorgallery.com The New York Society of Etchers 15th Anniversary Show. An Exhibition of Intaglio Prints.  will be presenting prints by artists living and working in the New York Tri-State area and include several MGC members. The juror for the show is Roberta Waddell, Curator of Prints Emeritus at the New York Public Library.The show will go on view on October 26 and continue to October 31, 2015 at the National Arts Club. The NAC is located at 15 Gramercy Park South in Manhattan. 212-475-3424. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm. nysetchers.org / nationalartsclub.org    Society of American Graphic Artists   Centennial National Exhibition will be opening at The Art Students League on October 22, with a reception from 6-8 pm, and continue to November 6, 2015. Participating in the show are MGC members and friends including Judy Mensch, Lisa Dinhofer, Frederick Mershimer, and Sigrid Sperzel. The League is located at 215 West 57th Street in New York City. An article about the Centennial Exhibition will be featured in The Journal of the Print World. Yasuyo Tanaka  is exhibiting 15 prints in a show entitled From Key to Key, taking place atHills Learning, a language instruction center, located now at 315 Madison Avenue on 42nd Street, Suite 900, in Manhattan. For information, call 212-784-0694. Of her work, using 365 etching plates created by using discarded metal keys, she says "...When we notice the presence of invisible keys in our mind, our true life begins". yasuyoart.blogspot.com     Exhibitions and Events of interest   2015 GARMENT DISTRICT Arts Festival THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 TO SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 Gallery Exhibitions, Open Studios, Receptions, Performances and Public Installations Organized by the Garment District Alliance, this 12th Annual Festival is a celebration of the artists, crafters, galleries and theaters that contribute their creative energy to this twenty-plus block district and neighborhood that pulses 24/7. MGC puts out the welcome mat to all and joins together with theLower East Side Printshop, which is featuring Alone Together, an exhibition curated by Beth Citron, and the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, which is opening the Blackburn 20/20 Annual Member Show and putting on printmaking demonstrations on Saturday. The three organizations make a strong case for the tradition of independent fine art graphics workshops in NYC. www.garmentdistrictnyc.com Alberto Burri: Grafica is an exhibition of the less frequently seen work in prints created by this innovator in post World War II abstraction. The show is on view now atLuxembourg & Dayan, 64 East 77th Street, NYC, until October 24, 2015. Burri (1915-1995) engaged in printmaking intensively from 1971 to 1994, beginning with a series of 10 Creti, created in response to a destructive earthquake in Sicily in 1968. These prints have the tactile, freighted materiality familiar to us in his paintings. Burri experimented with printing aquatint etchings using high pressure and heated plates, collage, gold leaf and other techniques, done in collaboration with workshops such as Stamperia 2 RC in Rome, Italy and Mixografia, Los Angeles, in the United States. This show will coincide with a retrospective of his work, The Trauma of Painting, at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY.luxembourgdayan.com Celebrating Print Magazine Available now, this bi-annual magazine created by Kads NY, is devoted to fine art printmaking from Central and Eastern Europe. The first issue features an introduction to contemporary Slovenian and Polish printmaking, an article on the art of the matrix in the Czech Republic and other writings.celebratingprint.com The exhibition, Celebrating Print 2015, juried by Mildred Beltré, will be opening on December 8, 2015 and continue to January 13, 2016, at BBLA Gallery in New York City.  Gallery 690: The Metropolitan Museum of Art The rotation of drawings and prints from the permanent collection can be depended upon to excite the eyes and the mind. In the current selection, an astounding range of works are present. Very noteworthy are: one of the few surviving large scale preparatory chalk cartoons from the Renaissance by the Italian artist Domenichino (1581 Bologna - 1641 Naples) made up of 14 sheets of blue laid paper; etchings by the 19th century Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny, who was an influence on the painter Francesco Oller, the subject of a painting retrospective now on at the Brooklyn Museum; and prints by the contemporary American artists Thomas Nozkowski and James Siena. A large new engraving by Siena shows the potentials of this demanding technique for new linear expression. metmuseum.org Learn the basic skills of engraving on copperplate with the German artist Anton Würth, teaching at MGC at the end of October.  James Siena Squa Tront engraving 2005-2010       Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts is the title of the landmark exhibition upcoming at The Morgan Library and Museum from October 30 to January 18, 2016. The show will bring together for the first time 30 book illustration projects, out of a total of nearly 50 that Henri Matisse worked on between 1912 and his death in 1954. The Museum is at 225 Madison Avenue at 26th Street in New York City. Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions Also opening at The Morgan Library, will be the first exhibition to emphasize the graphic accomplishments of this contemporary artist, most well known for his sculpture, who was born in 1941. The show will consist of about 70 works, primarily drawings (many from the artist's own collection and never before exhibited) but also prints and a few sculptures. The show is organized by the Art institute of Chicago and will go on view October 9 through January 16, 2016. Printing Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570-1900 is the show on view at the New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, in the third floor Prints and Stokes Galleries. The library description states that this collection has not been shown since 1901 and will feature well-established artists such as Angelica Kauffman. The exhibit will continue to January 31, 2016.  Print Love: Celebrating The Print Center at 100 is the title of a exhibition of some 40 prints, selected from a major founding donation of more than 1600 works, at The Philadelphia Museum of Art and continuing to January 3, 2016. This diverse assortment is curated by Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, and is intended to highlight the historical range and quality of the collection. The show is one of many around Philadelphia that are participating in the Centennial celebration of The Print Center, a non-profit gallery and organization devoted to multidisciplinary studies and inclusive programming in printmaking and photography. For a list of events, visit: printcenter.org  Moving Images: Printmaking & Animation is the title of a new exhibition at International Print Center New York. The show, organized by Lotte Allen, will explore the relationship between printmaking and the moving image through animation and video. Artists participating include Kayoung Lee, Nicola López, Kiki Smith, Justin Sanz, Rob Swainston, and Mark Webber. ipcny.org   Weaving Past Into Present  Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking  also at International Print Center New York, will bring together over 40 works by 12 current indigenous artists in a  project coordinated by Sarah Diver. The work will feature a range of printmaking techniques: lithography, silkscreen, linocut and monoprint. The affiliations of the artists include Mohawk, Seneca, Navajo, Flathead/Salish, Chiricahua Apache, Cree, Plains Cultures, Colville Confederate tribes and Wiyot. The exhibition remains on view until November 10, 2015. ipcny.org      Exhibition Opportunities Alberta Printmakers have issued a call for submission to NO-SO-MINI, a non-juried show, open to all interested printmakers, as a showcase for local and international print artists. Printmakers are asked to submit an edition of ten (10) 8" x 10" prints for exhibition and exchange in the Alberta Printmakers gallery. Each participant will receive 8 prints created by other artists and A/P will retain 2 works from each edition for sale in the studio, gallery and online store. The deadline for entries is Friday, November 28, 2015. Alberta Printmakers are located at 4025 4th Street SE in Calgary, AB. albertaprintmakers.com