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December 12, 2009

the printmakers' lineup

You can always identify the printmakers at an exhibition; they are the ones with their noses pressed up to the glass trying to figure out if it’s aquatint or mezzotint, lithograph or silkscreen or photoetching or monoprint or some combinationg of the above and more– you get the idea. Printmakers are notoriously process-obsessed (as well as generally anal compulsive, a trait which I have somehow utterly avoided).

Tai Wah Goh's piece - one of three

Anyone who makes or enjoys the art of printmaking should make it a point to catch the group show of small “affordable” prints curated by Helen Frederick at Smith Farm’s Joan Hisaoka Gallery at 16th and U. The work, much of which was contributed by artists who work at George Mason U’s printmaking studio, covers the waterfront of technique and subject matter and will have you squinting at the edges. I particularly enjoyed Tai Wah Goh’s circular pieces, full of depth and mystery, as well as those made by Donald Depuydt, Fleming Jeffries and Elzbieta Sikorska.

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