Curated by Kristopher Hedley & Dylan McManus

Printmaking embraces the idea of the collective- whether it is a team of printers in a commercial shop or a group of artists working within the context of a studio co-op. The art form repeatedly turns to this idea of the group. TEN: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Printmaking surveys current print based art works and reveals the spirit and group dynamic of an art form enriched with the free exchange of ideas. In the exhibit TEN we have assembled works from ten artists, each of whom are engaging contemporary printmaking practice and who have also had previous experiences working together; either through the sharing of work space or in the collaboration of concept and process. TEN both reflects the current critical concerns of contemporary print-artists and examines the dialogue and relationships manifested through the proximity of these cutting edge and dynamic artworks.

The featured artist’s include:

Vernon Byron
Robert Capozzi
Alexandra Davis
Kristopher Hedley
Beth Palmer
April Warren
Dylan McManus
Carly Still
Carlos Uribe
Ustya Tarnawsky

Often using obsolete film cameras and low-end image scanners to capture his subject, the imposed limitations become a challenge that adds a poetic unknown to the process. A faith in film as an intermediary adds mystery in the making process, vastly unknown in a convenient, rapid-fire digital era. Capozzi affirms, “such with life, flaws are often apparent but hover merely at the surface.”

Both stark and subtle, mélange employs elements including archival digital prints to “Frankensteined” electronics including LCD displays and cast off television sets. The result is a quasi-interactive record of light, shadow and reflection.

“Everyone carries a shadow,” Jung wrote, “and the less it is embodied
in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”

more information at: http://www.capozziphotographic.com/

A night of music, video and art installation

Saturday, April 17, 2010, 10pm at Snugs, New Paltz, NY

Capozzi Bros. art installations
Los Doggies
The Doctors Fox (from Boston)
NCM

* Join us earlier in the day at 1pm to see art amazement at the Phool’s Parade, New Paltz, NY.

The Tract House: A Darwin Addition (in conjunction with The Tract House and The American Philosophical Society Museum during Philagraphika 2010: Out of Print, Philadelphia, PA) (article here)

The American Philosophical Society Museum
Philadelphia, PA

Marks That Matter: Contemporary Drawing in the Hudson Valley
March 19 – April 16, 2010

Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery
SUNY Ulster
Stone Ridge, New York

June:
mélange (solo exhibition)
June 19 – July 10, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, June 19, 2010

Unison Water Street Market Gallery
10 Main Street
New Paltz, NY 12561

October:
Field Notes: Revisions, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
TEN, Unison Gallery, New Paltz, NY

Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
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Exhibition Dates:  July 11 – August 1, 2009

Print work with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary research from SUNY New Paltz Printmaking Studio. The group exhibition was originally conceived by invitation of The Contemporary Art Museum at Honglk University, Seoul, Korea.

Curated by Rimer Cardillo and Brian Wallace.

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 11th, 2:00-5:00pm

Capozzi: Sub-Rosa Suite in the Patterns in Practice exhibition, digital inkjet and silkscreen on paper, each 22 x 30 inches

Statement

In the Sub-Rosa Suite I explore the graphical construction of the fine art print, focusing on the pared down elements that serve as a single common denominator throughout the suite, i.e. the silkscreen linework or digital wood veneer template. This constructive approach reflects notions of Industrial Revolution methodology represented in a graphical visual form.

My images materialize through the interleaving of graphic techniques – a play between mark-making and methods of transfer. The act of drawing is my choice means to create and recreate reality, where after, I employ reproductive elements of the printmaking medium.

Conceptually, I find the term “sub-rosa” pertinent, interesting and particularly relevant in critique of contemporary politics and culture. The term sub-rosa, or “under the rose” is used in English to denote secrecy and imply covert activity.

Patterns in Practice opening reception

Jyvaskyla Art Museum / Centre for Printmaking

Hannikaisenkatu 39

Jyvaskyla, Finland

Installation and exhibition views, Jyvaskyla Art Museum

Hudson Valley Artists 2009

June 13 – September 6, 2009

Opening reception: Saturday June 13, 2009

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
State University of New York at New Paltz
New Paltz, NY 12561

My submission to Ecotones and Transition Zones details my current investigations on challenges and reclamation of local geography of New York State’s Hudson River Valley. Through various treks, raking the riverbanks and railways of the historic river, I have accumulated a vast collection of cast offs from nature and artifacts of the Industrial Revolution. My accumulations are then considered, arranged and displayed. The videotaped process then migrates to a documentation of digital prints based on the video stills that reveal the process and patterning of my research.

See reviews here and here.

Field Notes Project: Work in progress view

Please join us for a preview, reception and raffle for the Field Notes: States of Mind collaboration project.

Saturday, April 18, 4-7pm at Barrett Clay Works, 485 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Poughkeepsie, NY

Lorrie Fredette, Laura Moriarty, Jill Parisi, Dylan McManus and Bob Capozzi

During the early half of 2009 five participants formed a collective for a project titled Field Notes. The group shares common interests related to the earth’s structure, resources, and inhabitants. They rented a 3rd floor studio space at the Barrett Clay Works, and drew numbers to establish a sequence for the project. Each artist then had one week to produce an installation, leaving behind an object in the space for the following artist to contemplate and react to.  Documentation and prints from this project will be exhibited at the upcoming Graphica Creativa Print Triennial in Jyväskylä, Finland, June 13 – September 29, 2009.

Graphica Creativa is the oldest international print exhibition in the Nordic countries, taking place in Jyväskylä, Finland every third year. The first Graphica Creativa took place in 1975. The purpose of the exhibition is to raise the standard and value of printmaking, to launch and promote printmaking itself and to increase the interest in printmaking in Finland.

Thanks to Graphica Creativa Jyväskylä has become a centre of printmaking. To carry out the project an association called The Graphica Creativa Society was formed in the 1970’s, and since then it has managed to make printmaking more known. Founded in 1978 The Centre for Printmaking offers working space to printmakers and arranges varying print exhibitions. The collection of The Association of Finnish Printmakers, which today contains nearly 4800 prints, was placed permanently in Jyväskylä in 1981.