Big Medium and PrintAustin presents The Contemporary Print: 5 x 5 opening day Many events have been canceled or postponed due to coronavirus concerns. Please check with the organization before going to any event. Chloe Alexander,
Image courtesy of Chloe Alexander In partnership, Big Medium and PrintAustin will present The Contemporary Print: 5 x 5 international juried exhibition. Juried by Delita Martin of Black Box Press Studio, the virtual exhibition showcases the work of artists from the United States, Australia, and Slovenia, giving us a broad survey of printmaking happening across the globe. This year s selected artists include Chloe Alexander (Atlanta, Georgia); John Klosterman IV (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Oliver Pilic (Kamnik, Slovenia); Laura Post (Fort Worth); and Cleo Wilkinson (Melbourne, Australia).
Nothing About Us Without Us, at Flatbed Press (Courtesy of Flatbed Press)
Prints are exclusive things. And prints are inclusive things. Prints, in fact, partake of both those qualities in addition to whatever aesthetic and semantic information they relay, and here comes PrintAustin 2021, so let s take a look at that and what the hell we re talking about with this seeming paradox.
PrintAustin, founded in 2013 by Austin-based printmakers Cathy Savage and Elvia Perrin, is an artist-led nonprofit organization working to showcase traditional and contemporary approaches in printmaking. They say working to showcase, and they (Savage and PA Director Paloma Mayorga and their cohort) have been doing just that. And, from what we ve experienced of the monthlong program at the start of each year, they ve done so with great success. The number of participating studios and galleries, and the exhibitions and workshops and demos offered by them, has grown year by year, as has the amount of publ