Jan 19th 2018

Bad Edition (Second Edition)

@ Northeastern Illinois University's Fine Arts Center Gallery

5500 N Saint Louis Ave, Chicago, IL 60625

Opening Friday, January 19th, from 6PM - 9PM

On view through Friday, February 2nd

Participating Artists:
Kevin Goodrich, Millicent Kennedy, Annie Kielman, Marie Bannerot McInerney, Megan Sterling

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Throughout history, printmaking processes have been used to reproduce and disseminate ideas by way of books, pamphlets, posters and even playing cards. Printmaking is a rigorous discipline that demands a set of strategies that will result in the creation of a matrix, which is then used to recreate—as identically as possible—the same image multiple times. Within contemporary art practice, the boundaries that once defined printmaking as a utilitarian reproductive technique have been experimented with, enhanced, modified, and sometimes even exterminated. Interdisciplinary methods of art-making have created collaborations between mark-making, material, surface and concept that beg the question: what is a print?

In Bad Editions (Second Edition), a series of artists reunite once more to explore the possibilities of printmaking as a process, as a philosophy and as an excuse for art-making. By incorporating strategies that deviate from tradition, the artists in this exhibition challenge printmaking to define itself broadly. These artists take traditional methodologies as a point of departure to question the limits of the print, the role of the edition and how printmaking techniques might inform other disciplines.

-Rafael E. Vera (curator)

Hours for the spring semester will be updated on this site soon. The Gallery will be closed Jan. 15 in observance of Martin Luther King Day.

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Curator/Artist Talk: Thursday, Jan. 11 at 10 a.m. in the Fine Arts Center Gallery

Reception: Friday, Jan. 19, 6-9 p.m.

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