In Black and White, an exhibition of black and white prints, opens at Artspace in Raleigh tomorrow. The thirty one 4″ x 4″ woodcuts I created as a guest artists at 365daysofprint.com this past March are installed as a calendar-like grid. Each image is a reaction to a particular headline or story in the corresponding day’s New York Times.
About 365 Days of Print:
a blog with the ultimate goal to remix the newspaper, to engage and create dialogue within all media of art regarding the news, literacy, and the experience of reading the paper. Over the course of 2011, 100+ artists will use the newspaper as fodder to illustrate, sew, draw, paint, sculpt, photograph…
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These are wonderful! I’m thinking that making fast little prints like this would be really liberating — take some of the “preciousness” out of the process. Did you find that to be true?
Annie,
I did find that to be true. It took about 3 hours to read/draw/cut/proof/photograph/post for each image if I didn’t hesitate. That’s a decent chunk of the day 7 days a week, so it sort of forced a decisive spontaneity. And knowing I’d end up with 31 images took away any pressure to make “today’s” a home run – just crank them out and the creme will rise to the top.
Congrats on the show at the Print Center in Phila!