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Fall 2009 How Technology has changed Printmaking Hwangbo exemplifies another trend present in printmaking. With the new ease with which prints can be produced, many artists instead focus more attention on the way a print can be hung in a museum. Artists conceive works that defy the confines of a traditional four-sided frame. Hwangbo’s works achieve threedimensionality in their finished state. By layering print after print the artist builds up a texture to give the work a presence in space. The artist Tim Dooley (biography on page 24) resists the confines of a twodimensional sheet of paper. Dooley creates large installation pieces in which the prints become almost interactive. Dooley includes mixed media, which allows the viewer full awareness of the intricate process and form of prints. Anita Jung Madonna and Child with St. Anne 2004 We can see through these many examples that printmaking today is drastically different from the printmaking of the past. Our need for prints has changed through the advancement of technology, so the methods and reasons we create prints has followed suit. The technology that changed printmaking is not a bad thing, but rather another adjustment that contemporary artists have embraced in creative ways. Tim Dooley That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore 2007 Modern printmakers also create works that reference the heritage of printmaking, but they add modern touches. Anita Jung is known for works that visually cite old masters’ paintings yet she incorporates elements of home décor through patterning. By combining new and old Jung celebrates the roots of contemporary art while embracing modern influences. 21
Fall 2009 How Museums Have Embraced Modern Printmaking With the new freedom experienced by modern printmakers, it should come as no surprise that artists are trying new and unexplored forms that defy the conventions of most typical museum exhibitions. But museums are adapting and learning to embrace the new forms. Museums now recognize the artistic value of prints. In recent years the number of print exhibitions in the United States increased exponentially. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art offered five exhibitions on prints just since 2007. They focused on traditional Japanese prints while mounting exhibits displaying prints by artists better known for their other media, including Picasso and Matisse. In recent exhibits museums have adapted to the new and expanded techniques and dimensions of printmaking. The exhibit Matrix at the Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University will display some of the new techniques currently in practice. Matrix will include artists whose prints take on a variety of forms. The artist Lynne Allen (biography on page 23) creates three-dimensional works out of prints. Her work draws on her Native American heritage, and her paper sculptures commonly take the shape of artifacts of that culture. Her work displays the way prints can be transformed into something entirely different than their original form and intent. Henri Matisse Le Cauchemar de l'Eléphant Blanc 1947 (LACMA exhibition Matisse on Paper) In 2001 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held an exhibit titled What is a Print? This exhibition examined the ever changing medium of printmaking in relation to its past and future. The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science in Tallahassee recently presented an exhibition that dealt with the relationship between printing money and fine art. Titled CURRENCY: Art As Money/Money As Art, the exhibit showed the influence that money as a print form exerts on the printmaking of contemporary artists. Lynn Allen Moccasin #2 2000 Matrix will include artists who developed alternatives to paper as the foundation on which they print. The artist Cynthia Lollis prints on unique materials. Cynthia Lollis created a detailed map of the earth, and printed it on the inside of broken egg shells. 22
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