Warrington Colescott, Imperium: Down in the Green Zone, etching, 17″ x 24″, Purchase Prizes, The Ture Bengtz Memorial Prize Collection: The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury
Chadwick Tolley, Spilt Milk, etching, 12″ x 15″, Purchase Prizes, The C. G. Metals Prize Collection: C. G. Metals
Mark Hosford, The Waiting Game, screenprint, 13.25″ x 21″, Purchase Prizes, The Graphic Chemical Prize Collection: Graphic Chemical
Karen Kunc, Orb Weaving, woodcut, 18″ x 18″, Purchase Prizes, The Boston Printmakers 60th Anniversary Prize Collection: The Worcester Art Museum
Butt Johnson, Veduta Di Castello del Greyskull, lithograph, 15″ x 18″, Purchase Prizes The Boston Printmakers Prize Collection: The Boston Public Library
Neil Shigley, Eddie 51, plexiglass block print on paper, mounted on canvas, 48″ x 36″ x 2″
Toni Damkoehler, The Captain, inkjet print, 60″ x 30″
THE BOSTON PRINTMAKERS 2009 NORTH AMERICAN PRINT BIENNIAL
EXHIBITION DATES: February 15 – March 29, 2009
LOCATION: 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
JUROR’S STATEMENT
Roberta Waddell, Curator Emerita, The New York Public Library
My comments about this year’s Biennial can only suggest how exciting and rewarding it was to review the submissions, more prints and books than I could otherwise have seen in years of portfolio reviews and visits to galleries and museums. From among those entries, but for space constraints, I could have selected not just one, but two strong shows. I am grateful to the Executive Board of the Boston Printmakers for their continuing commitment to the North American Print Biennial, which can answer any and all questions about the state of printmaking today. The answer: printmaking is alive, well, and thriving, and the proof is amply evident and on view in Gallery 808.
At her lecture before the opening reception, juror Roberta Waddell discussed and illustrated each piece she had chosen for the 2009 Biennial.
Read her remarks
2009 Awards:
Selection of the Juror
Purchase Prizes
The Boston Printmakers Prize
Collection: The Boston Public Library
Butt Johnson, Veduta Di Castello del Greyskull, lithograph
The Boston Printmakers 60th Anniversary Prize
Collection: The Worcester Art Museum
Karen Kunc, Orb Weaving, woodcut
The C. G. Metals Prize
Collection: C. G. Metals
Chadwick Tolley, Spilt Milk, etching
The Graphic Chemical Prize
Collection: Graphic Chemical
Mark Hosford, The Waiting Game, screenprint
The Otis Philbrick Memorial Prize
Collection: The Fogg Museum of Fine Arts
David Avery, The Long Road to War, etching
The Ture Bengtz Memorial Prize
Collection: The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury
Warrington Colescott, Imperium: Down in the Green Zone, etching
Materials Awards
Atlantic Papers, Ivyland, PA
Thomas Wood, Mermaid Hunters, etching, aquatint
James Mundie, P 1535 (Two-headed Boy of Bengal), woodcut
Dolphin Papers, Indianapolis, IN
Jon Cartledge, Portrait of T., screenprint
Eric Goldberg, Footbridge Still Life, hand-colored etching
Hunt’s Photo & Video, Melrose, MA
Annie Bissett, Borders #1 – U.S./Mexico, Japanese-style woodblock print
Nathan Catlin, It Happened In A Dream (Part 3) It Moved to My Face, reduction woodblock print
Legion Paper, New York, NY
Victor Romao, Self Portrait As Brown Bat, woodcut
David Williams, Jellyfish?, etching
Magnesium Elektron NA, Inc., Plymouth, MA
K. K. Kozik, Force Majeure, etching, aquatint
McClain’s Printmaking Supplies, King City, OR
Elizabeth Uryase, Algae Mix, intaglio, woodcut
Mixit Print Studio, Somerville, MA
David Curcio, History, etching, woodcut, embroidery and stitching
Muskat Studios, Somerville, MA
Anita Hunt, Dissolution I, drypoint, spitbite aquatint
Portfoliobox, Inc., Pawtucket, RI
Whitney Calvert, 30th Street Station, intaglio
Savoir Faire/Charbonell, Novato, CA
Ellen Price, Saint John’s, paper plate lithograph
Jenny Freestone, Vessel 2, Third State, direct gravure, roulette
Singer Editions, Boston MA
Laurie Sloan, Untitled 1, ink jet print