KADS New York is pleased to announce our inaugural presentation at The 2016 New York Satellite Print Fair during New York Print Week in November. Our exquisite selection of fine art prints by renowned and emerging artists will offer print connoisseurs an opportunity to explore a range of traditional prints and digital prints.

Our presentation includes intaglio prints by Jiri Anderle (b. 1936, Czech), with highlights such as Dialogue with Myself (1976) and Girl With a Pearl Necklace, After Vermeer (1981). Sought-after for his explorations of the elementary themes of human existence, Anderle’s prints juxtapose the real and the fantastic, logic and absurd, beauty and hideousness, good and evil, in haunting imagery capable to touch our soul. In 1980, the American art magazine Art News declared Anderle’s Cruel Game for a Man (1975) the most important print of the 1970s.

The fantasy world unfolds in full force in variety of forms in the featured etchings by Dusan Kallay (b.1948), Kamila Stanclova (b. 1945) and Katarina Vavrova (b. 1964). We will present such treasures as Dream of John the Watchmaker (1983) and Encounter of Labyrinths (1998) by Dusan Kallay—the recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award (1988). In 2015, the Slovak edition of Alice in Wonderland with Kallay’s illustrations received the Grand Prize Alice150 awarded in New York for the best illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll’s book.

Other highlights of our presentation include an iconic color etching The Old Moving House (1982) by Kamila Stanclova; exquisitely delicate hand-colored etchings that evoke a sense of quietude and human pathos by Katarina Vavrova; monumental mezzotints revealing grand forms of flowers floating on velvety black background by Dalibor Smutny (b. 1964); a recent series of digital prints that explore the phenomenon of graphemes by visual poet and letterist Eduard Ovcacek (b. 1933); and a series of etchings Chez Maman by Katerina Kyselica.

The New York Satellite Print Fair will take place at Manhattan’s Bohemian National Hall from November 4-6 during New York Print Week, the world’s largest international fine art print event. The Fair will feature fourteen seasoned dealers with a strong commitment to presenting fine art prints, drawings and other works on paper.

Venue:
The New York Satellite Print Fair (www.nysatelliteprintfair.com)
Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021

Free and open to the public.
Fair Hours:
Friday, November 4: 10 AM – 8 PM
Saturday, November 5: 10 AM – 7 PM
Sunday, November 6: 10 AM – 5 PM

The Wolfgang Ratjen Award is an annual award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts. The prize, funded by the Foundation Wolfgang Ratjen, is curated and presented by CONIVNCTA FLORESCIT Friends of the "Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte".
The purpose of this award, which honours the memory of the collector Wolfgang Ratjen (1943-1997), is to encourage younger scholars to address neglected topics and to bring the results of their work to the attention of a broader public.
Consideration will be given to a Ph.D. dissertation, M.A. thesis, or scholarly article of larger scope, dealing with art historical questions which involve drawings or prints in Western art. Applicants should have an academic background.
The winning candidate, chosen by an independent committee of scholars, will receive € 5,000, and is expected to spend three months conducting research at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich.
Candidates for the award are requested to send a copy of the research paper in question, along with a curriculum vitae detailing academic qualifications, copies of certificates and a list of publications to:

Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
to the attention of Prof. Dr. Iris Lauterbach
Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10
80333 Munich/Germany

The application deadline is March 17, 2017.

University Museums at University of Delaware has received a gift of more than 50 prints from the Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI) at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Including 48 prints and one print portfolio, the donation significantly expands and strengthens the University Museums’ holdings in graphic art, most notably in African American art but more comprehensively in contemporary art.

Among the artists represented are David Driskell, Faith Ringgold, Sam Gilliam, William T. Williams, Melvin Edwards, Robin Holder, Allison Saar, Kay WalkingStick, Wayne Crothers and Richard Anuszkiewicz.

This exhibition brings together the work of Charles Meryon and John Taylor Arms, printmakers who revered the art and architecture of medieval Europe.

Meryon (French, 1821–1868), a champion of the Etching Revival in France, became renowned for Etchings of Paris (Eaux-fortes sur Paris), 1850–54, a series depicting the city’s medieval center during a period of grand-scale urban renovation. Meryon’s views of the Ile de la Cité and bridges stretching across the Seine often include fantastical and macabre details: gargoyles perched on Notre Dame, flocks of menacing birds, and historic monuments looming over minutely drawn figures, alive and dead. Meryon made prints in multiple states, meticulously altering their composition and tone—a practice that continued even after his mental decline began.

In the early 20th century, John Taylor Arms (American, 1887–1953) praised Meryon's series—his own etching The Thinker (Le Penseur) reinterprets Meryon's iconic grotesque subject. Trained as an architect, Arms found artistic inspiration in Europe’s diverse and regionally distinctive architectural styles, especially its enduring Gothic structures. In the United States, the Gothic Revival skyscrapers of New York City fascinated him. This exhibition presents Arms’s views of Paris, Venice, Stockholm, and New York–including the recent VMFA acquisition An American Cathedral (The Woolworth Building)–all of which he rendered with laborious precision.

Remnants and Revivals celebrates the technical prowess of these leading etchers whose varied lines capture the glory of the Gothic and its architectural nuances. This exhibition is largely drawn from the Frank Raysor Collection, a generous, ongoing promised gift to the museum.

Atelier 17 was a collaborative print center located in Paris that had a major impact on contemporary printmaking. Organized and operated by S.W. Hayter, the Atelier was driven to relocate to NYC during World War II where it reshaped American thinking about the graphic arts. SUArt’s series of events will feature special lectures by Domenic Iacono (director, SUArt Galleries), Joann Moser (former deputy chief curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum), Christina Weyl (freelance curator), and Andrew Raftery (Professor, Rhode Island School of Design).

Sponsored, in part, by the Syracuse University Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences as a part of the Syracuse Symposium™ Place.

Friday, September 23
10am – 1pm

Opening Remarks:
Domenic Iacono, curator of About Prints: The Legacy of Stanley William Hayter and the Atelier 17

Featured Speakers:
Joann Moser, former deputy chief curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Andrew Raftery, Professor, Rhode Island School of Design

Saturday, September 24
10am – 1pm

Featured Speakers:
Forum with Print Fair participating art dealers
Christina Weyl, freelance curator

SYRACUSE FINE ART PRINT FAIR
September 23 – September 25, 2016
Friday & Saturday, 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.; Sunday, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Shaffer Art Building, Galleria

In conjunction with the symposium, Atelier 17: A Gathering Place for Avant-Garde Artists, the SUArt Galleries will feature a fine art print fair with leading galleries in attendance. The exhibitors include Susan Teller Gallery (New York City), Dolan Maxwell (Philadelphia, PA), The Annex Galleries (Santa Rosa, CA), The Old Print Shop (New York City), Thomas French Fine Art (Fairlawn, OH), and Lake Effect Editions (Syracuse University).