National Small Works 2015 - Washington Printmakers Gallery

Washington Printmakers
National Small Works
2015
5 August—30 August, 2015
Juror, Greg Jecmen
Associate Curator of
Old Master Prints and Drawings
National Gallery of Art
First Prize | Larinda Meade | Morning Walk | Softground,
aquatint, drypoint
Second Prize | Amy Bucholtz | The Great Awakening | Drypoint
National Small Works 2015
The Washington Printmakers Gallery is pleased to present 35 outstanding
prints by artists from across the United States in its National Small Works
2015.
This annual juried exhibition of the Washington Printmakers Gallery, now in
its eighteenth year, has attracted an exciting range of entries in both traditional and experimental printmaking, and has permitted us to collaborate with
many well-known curators from some of the most prestigious museums and
galleries in the region. Our list of past jurors includes Helen Frederick, founder
and former Director of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center; Krystyna Wassermann,
Curator of Book Arts at the National Museum of Women in the Arts; Linda C.
Simmons, Curator Emerita of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Eric Denker, Senior
Lecturer, Education Division, the National Gallery of Art; Jane Farmer, independent curator; Stephen Phillips, Assistant Curator of The Phillips Collection;
Joann Moser, Senior Curator of Graphic Art at the Smithsonian American Art
Museum; Katherine L. Blood, Curator of Prints and Drawing at the Library of
Congress; and Ann Shafer, Assistant Curator for Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Our curator for this 18th Exhibition is Greg Jecmen of the National Gallery
of Art in Washington, DC. Mr. Jecmen has selected the following artists and
works for awards:
First Prize to Larinda Meade, Morning Walk
Second Prize to Amy Buchholz, The Great Awakening
Third Prize to Theresa Martin, Tim Clary
Fourth Prize to Donald Furst, 309 Elm Street
Honorable Mention to David Avery, The Coming of the
Cocklicranes No. 1 (Spring)
Honorable Mention to Dirk Hagner, Willows at Friedrichstadt
Honorable Mention to Alex Keto, Fan Dance and Liquid Night
Honorable Mentionto John Semple, Switchhouse WRJ
Honorable Mention to William Waitzman, August Lake
and Silver Sky
The Washington Printmakers Gallery thanks Mr. Jecmen for his contribution
to this remarkable exhibit, and congratulates the artists selected.
For providing the awards to the artists in this exhibition, we also thank the
Washington Print Foundation and these companies, whose products have
served artists nationwide for many years:
Speedball
Plaza Artist Materials & Picture Framing
Renaissance Graphic Arts
Juror’s Statement
When I initially was asked by the Washington Printmakers Gallery to be
juror for their 2007 National Small Works exhibition, I expressed some
doubt, for what did a curator who specialized in prints executed prior to
1900 know of contemporary printmaking? But I do know what makes a
good print, whatever its date, and I went on to have a most enjoyable
experience. Thus, when asked again, I quickly accepted the invitation to
jury the present show. This year there were a total of 177 submissions
by 43 artists, out of which 35 works by 29 artists were chosen for this
exhibition.
The majority of works submitted were done by traditional printmaking
techniques—relief, intaglio, lithograph, monotype and screenprint—with
a number of digital prints and photographs. While some of the prints
submitted were abstract, the majority were of time-honored subjects:
the human figure, portraiture, landscape, and still-life. All of the artists
selected here reveal a profound dedication to the craft of printmaking.
They are especially committed to experimenting with their chosen medium, and take great care in the making and inking of the matrix, choosing
papers, and the final hand pulling or printing. Larinda Meade skillfully and
sensitively combines softground, aquatint and drypoint to create a stirring landscape in Morning Walk. Amy Buchholz’s The Great Awakening
displays an incredibly delicate mastery of the drypoint technique. Theresa Martin provides an arresting portrait, much in the spirit of German
Expressionism, in her three-color reduction linoprint of Tim Clary. Donald
Furst creates an evocative scene of a simple subject in 309 Elm Street,
a lithograph in which he adeptly worked by scraping ink from the stone.
An honorable mention goes to David Avery, Dirk Hagner, Alex Keto, John
Semple, and William Waitzman.
I would like to end by thanking Washington Printmakers Gallery member
Peggy Parker for inviting me to judge the 18th annual National Small
Works show. I also would like to thank the Gallery’s director, Brian VanFleet, for answering practical questions and helping me through some
technical difficulties in the vetting process. I want to heartily applaud the
Gallery’s inception of this important annual, nationwide competition, one
of the many ways in which it fosters and celebrates the original, artist-made print. Finally, I want to congratulate WPG on its 30th anniversary—may the WPG happily celebrate more anniversaries to come!
Gregory Jecmen
2015 NSW Artists
Geoffrey Agrons
California
In Your Bedroom Later
Archival pigment print
from original digital
photo
12” x 8”
$500
* David Avery
Honorable Mention
California
The Coming of the
Cocklicranes No. 1
(Spring)
Etching
5.88” x 5.25”
The Coming of the
Cocklicranes No. 2
(Summer)
Etching
6.25” x 5.13”
$470 each
Richard John Barnes
Maryland
Who Decides
Archival inkjet print
12” x 9”
$250
Joan Dix Blair
Massachusetts
Shale Series,
Arrowhead #2
Sugar lift aquatint
5” x 5”
$500
* Amy Buchholz
2nd Place Winner
New York
The Great Awakening
Drypoint
9” x 6”
$450
Ann Chernow
Connecticut
Rendezvous in Black
Stone lithograph
14” x 11”
$500
* Donald Furst
4th Prize Winner
North Carolina
309 Elm Street
Stone lithograph
7.5” x 10”
$300
Jennifer Gover
Massachusetts
Mach 1
Etching
2.88” x 4”
$300
* Dirk Hagner
Honorable Mention
California
Willows at
Friedrichstadt
Etching, relief,
letterpress
Poem by Rainer Maria
Rilke
5” x 9.5”
$650
Ann
Johnston-Schuster
Washington State
Shadow of the Turning
Subtractive woodcut
10.75” x 16”
$750
* Alex Keto
Honorable Mention
Maryland
Fan Dance
Digital photograph
Liquid Night
Digital photograph
8” x 12”
$300 each
Kathryn Lesh
Washington State
Alita #1 (1 in triptych)
Alita #2 (2 in triptych)
Alita #3 (3 in triptych)
Monotype
10” x 8” each
$3600, sold as triptych
only
* Theresa Martin
3rd Prize Winner
Kansas
Tim Clary
Reduction linocut
8” x 6”
$220
Kathy McGhee
Ohio
Aerie
Screen print with
intaglio chine collé
13” x 9”
Jean-Pierre Plé
Washington, DC
Ridgeline
Digital photograph
12” x 12”
$180
Omen
Screen print
9” x 13”
$550 each
James Reinke
Wisconsin
Oak Wetland
Linocut
7” x 5”
$220
* Larinda Meade
1st Prize Winner
Maine
Morning Walk
Softground, aquatint,
drypoint
9” x 9”
$175
Craig Morgan
Washington, DC
River in Winter
Etching
12” x 11.75”
$380
Bruce Muirhead
New York
Dark Mirror
Intaglio
12” x 12”
$500
Varsha Patel
California
Dawn
Multiplate etching
and aquatint
6” x 9”
$200
William Salzillo
New York
Trapeze
Etching, aquatint
12” x 12”
$450
Lois Sellers
Pennsylvania
Oak Bluffs afternoon
Gum dichromate print
14” x 18”
$450
* John Semple
Honorable Mention
Vermont
Switchhouse WRJ
Etching
9” x 6”
$600
Emily Shepardson
Virginia
Dreamed Fish Swam
Through the House and
Ate All the Bread
Monoprint
11.25” x 9.5”
$450
* William Waitzman
Honorable Mention
New York
August Lake
Screen print
Silver Sky
Screen print
13” x 10”
$575 each
Richard Paul
Weiblinger
Maryland
Pier with Fog 2739
Digital photograph
8” x 10”
$200
Sandra Chen
Weinstein
California
Chinese Willows
Giclee print
11” x 14.5”
$650
Angela Franks Wells
North Carolina
Garden Onion
Copperplate
photogravure
6” x 6”
$300
Linda Yoshizawa
California
Fall’s Hidden Shadows
Solarplate etching
7” x 4”
$200
Third Prize | Theresa Martin | Tim Clary | Reduction linocut
About the Juror
Gregory Jecmen received a BA in art history from Manhattanville College (1983) and an MA in art history from the University of Chicago (1984). He pursued doctoral studies at the
University of Maryland. After internships at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York; the Cleveland Museum of Art; and
the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Jecmen was
hired as a curatorial assistant for the print and drawing department at the NGA. In 1988 he assumed his current position.
Fourth Prize | Donald Furst | 309 Elm Street | Stone lithograph
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Artists’ Reception
and Announcement of Winners
Sunday, August 9, 3:00-5:00
This exhibition is presented by the Washington
Print Foundation, a nonprofit organization
established by the Washington Printmakers Gallery
in 2005 to foster the creation and appreciation
of original fine art prints and photographs.