PROCESS & ALCHEMY: New Directions & Alternative Processes in Screen-printing, Work from the Hand Print Workshop International
Opening Reception:
Friday, June 27, 2008 from 7 – 9pm
Exhibition Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday / 2 to 6pm and by appointment / Closed July 4 & 5, 2008
In the words of HPWI Director Dennis O’ Neil, “powders, waxes, resists and adhesives are just part of the alchemy that has transformed collaborative screen printing and brought it back from the brink of extinction nearly a decade ago with a new face, new possibilities and challenges for a new age.”
Civilian is thrilled to curate a selection of works from the studio including prints by R. Martin Abeyta, Christine Carr, Andrey Chezhin, Alexander Djikia, James Huckenpahler, Erick Jackson, Alyona Kirtsova, Igor Makarevich, Pavel Makov, Renee Stout, Tomas Rivas, Alexander Rodchenko, and Leonid Tishkov.
About the Hand Print Workshop International
The Hand Print Workshop in Alexandria, Virginia is a non-profit collaborative screen print studio founded by artist Dennis O’Neil in 1973. HPWI is dedicated to experimental and innovative water based screen printing and screen print related projects with artists of talent and vision locally, nationally and internationally and sharing their work and ideas with the arts community of Washington in as many ways as possible.
To date the workshop has published more than 300 prints and print related projects with artists including Komar & Melamid, William Christenberry, Renée Stout, Steven Cushner and Leonid Tishkov
June 27 - July 26, 2008 in the Project Space
Civilian is thrilled to curate a selection of works from the Hand Print Workshop International
including prints by R. Martin Abeyta, Christine Carr, Andrey
Chezhin, Alexander Djikia, James Huckenpahler, Erick
Jackson, Alyona Kirtsova, Igor Makarevich, Pavel Makov,
Renee Stout, Tomas Rivas, Alexander Rodchenko, and Leonid
Tishkov.
