7TH BIENNIAL
FOOTPRINT International Exhibition
JUROR’S STATEMENT DR. JANE KINSMAN Distinguished Adjunct Curator and former Head of International Art and Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Australia.
To ‘think outside the square’ is an expression which refers to breaking out of limited and restricted spaces using qualities of imagination and talent. In FOOTPRINT 2020, artists are provided with the opportunity to be creative in a limited scale yet challenged to escape geometric confinement. In the history of western art, the power of the small image has been immense. Take, for example the lithographs of Honoré Daumier which appeared in the small scale pages of French satirical journals such as La Caricature and Le Charivari, where he examined political and later social themes of 19th century France. Daumier recognised that the newly installed King Louis-Philippe, with his paunch and heavy jowls, looked remarkably like the shape of a pear—which became the perfect motif for the artist’s caricatures to ridicule the monarch. Following Daumier’s imprisonment and the introduction of new censorship laws in 1836, the artist then turned to social satire in order to lampoon the habits and foibles of those in French society who supported the king. Such social caricature served as a rich visual repertoire for many artists associated with Impressionism in their search for contemporary themes of modern life and rejection of historical, classical, or religious subjects so favoured in French Academic Art. The FOOTPRINT 2020 prize highlights the imaginative and technical facility by many contributing artists and their evocation of disparate yet potent themes within the confines of a small image—demonstrating that large scale does not always equate with importance. The artists and the organisers should be congratulated in bringing together a wide ranging body of work, exploring many and varied creative worlds. These may conjure up different universes, some infinite, or may evoke surreal experience. Others delight the eye with their rich decorative qualities, while others are redolent with emotional power, and yet others relish in the minutiae of the world around us for maximum effect.
While acknowledging the creative qualities of all the entries, I would like to mention briefly the contributions made by the prize winners of FOOTPRINT 2020. As first prize winner, Christine Aaron has exploited the flexibility and gestural qualities of the monotype technique. In the past, this printing process has allowed artists great freedom to compose. Edgar Degas, for example, embraced monotypes to develop quite radical images, which later came to inform his painting style. For Path, Aaron has harnessed the spontaneity of the technique to create a most painterly of compositions. Path is characterised by dramatic gestural sweeps which evoke both haunting natural and abstract forms.
Sandra Cardillo, MA, USA, City Framework-7, Woodcut and screenprint, Honorable Mention
In Muscle Memory 2, Anna Trojanowska plays on a sense of ambiguity with her abstract, yet strangely figurative formations which are laid out like some kind of procession. Her skill in lithography using Carrara stone as a matrix, emphasises the mysterious transitory nature of her imagery, highlighted by blurry shadows of darkness and light.
Kyle Chaput’s Rio Bravo III-III emphasises the sometime surreal nature of our experiences, conjuring up the weird imagery of an abandoned boat in a barren location. His adoption of the composite techniques—lithography, laserengraving, and screen-printing—highlights the stark and puzzling nature of his subject.
Chris Lawry, Australia, Road Trip in Western Victoria, Dust, Linocut, Honorable Mention
The delicate spiraling geometric forms in Had We World Enough (Four Corners) by Joanna Anos seem to allude to an almost endless universe or universes, with its repetitive, decorative patterning and tracery. Their forms are enriched by Anos’ technique of engraving relief and further enhanced by the choice of a delicate chine collé paper support. In all these excursions, each artist has excited the imagination of the viewer—whether inspiring, delighting, or disturbing them.
ABOUT THE JUROR
Dr. Jane Kinsman was Head of International Art and Senior Curator of International Prints, Drawings and Illustrated Books at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) through the end of 2019. Dr. Kinsman currently holds the position of Distinguished Adjunct Curator at the NGA.
ABOUT THE FOOTPRINT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION The 7th Biennial FOOTPRINT International Exhibition results from a competition for fine-art prints that are exactly one foot square. The square format was uncommon in art until the advent of 20th century abstraction. Rectangular horizontal and vertical shapes for landscape and portraiture, respectively, were, and in fact still are the norm. As a result, composing in the square becomes an artistic challenge. FOOTPRINT International presents an opportunity for contemporary printmakers to address the square in 12 inches by 12 inches (30.5 cm x 30.5 cm). FOOTPRINT International is held every other year, alternating with CCP’s Biennial International Miniature Print Competition.
Christine Aaron, NY, USA, Path, Monotype, First Place, Awagami Paper Award
7TH BIENNIAL FOOTPRINT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 2020 LIST OF WORKS
Christine Aaron NY, USA Path (2018) Monotype $450 First Place Awagami Paper Award Joanna Anos IL, USA Had We World Enough (Four Corners), (2019) Engraving relief with chine collé $250 Third Place Adrienne Beacham ME, USA Pink Teddy (2020) Collagraph with handcoloring $250 Laura Benedetti OR, USA Fern Shadow (2020) Monoprint $200 Shirley Bernstein CT, USA Hovering (2019) Reduction woodcut $350 Marian Bingham CT, USA Fall (Trees) (2020) Monotype with collage $1000 Casey Blanchard VT, USA Prayer Offerings 13 (2016) Monoprint $795
Jean Allemeier Boot MI, USA Rectory Park Tree (2020) Etching, aquatint, and drypoint $325 Georg Bothe Germany Carbona not Glue XLV (2020) TetraPak engraving $400 Agathe Bouton PA, USA Reflection & Light XXXIII (2018) Monotype $600 Laurie D Brown WA, USA Chasing My Tail (2019) Linocut with chine collé and hand-coloring $450 Karen Brussat Butler CT, USA Women on the March (2019) Lithograph with handcoloring $225 Sandra Cardillo MA, USA City Framework-7 (2019) Woodcut and screenprint $250 Honorable Mention Sandra Cardillo MA, USA City Framework-9 (2019) Screenprint $250
Alanna Fagan CT, USA Le Marché Silkscreen monotype
Kyle Chaput TX, USA Rio Bravo III-III (2020) Lithograph, laserengraving, and screenprint $600 Third Place Kyle Chaput TX, USA Bundle IV-I (2020) Woodcut and screenprint $600 Diane Cherr NY, USA Yellow Primrose Morning (2020) Collagraph monoprint with chine collé and collage $1000 Jane Cooper NY, USA Postlude (2020) Monotype on aluminum leaf with hand additions $700 Binnie Birstein Memorial Award
Kathleen DeMeo CT, USA Once Upon a Meadow (2018) Monotype $300 Katharine Draper CT, USA Twirling (2020) Monotype $400 Linda Dubin Garfield PA, USA Green Hills Yellow Sky (2019) Mixed media $295 Alanna Fagan CT, USA Le Marché (2020) Silkscreen monotype $750 Beth Fein CT, USA Quarantine Dream (2020) Photo-etching with chine collé $500
Andrea Cote NY, USA Touchprint (1) (2020) Collagraph relief with chine collé $575
David Fine NY, USA Maine Shoreline (2019) Monotype $150
Stephen Da Lay MO, USA Not All (2020) Mokulito $775
Robin Fruchter NJ, USA In Bloom (2017) Linocut $650
Adam Hogarth United Kingdom Dobutsu 2 (2020) Screenprint
Ron Fundingsland CO, USA Almighty (2003) Etching and aquatint $400 Patricia L. Giraud OR, USA foxglove (2020) Etching and soap ground aquatint $375 Rod Goertzen Canada Outside the Grid (2020) Collagraph $60 Barry Goldstein NC, USA Sunset @ Kiawah (2020) Digital $650 Binnie Birstein Memorial Award Holly Hawthorn CT, USA Buddha’s Footprint (2019) Mixed media monoprint $225 Carissa Heinrichs WI, USA In the Muck (2020) Reduction linocut and screenprint $100 Fran Henry - Meehan CT, USA Box of Squares (2020) Monotype with collage $350
Valeria Rachel Herrera NY, USA Whiteout, Episode II (2020) Screenprint $300 Jamie Hoffer CA, USA Petals in the Rings 1 (2020) Monoprint with encaustic $500 Adam Hogarth United Kingdom Dobutsu 2 (2020) Screenprint $400 Claire Illouz France Under the Slope (2020) Etching and drypoint $450 Yukio Ito Japan Spice Stories II (2018) Mezzotint $300 Julianna Joos Canada Dans les Nuages (2020) Linocut $300 T. Klacsmann NY, USA Etude in Mauve – Pink Parrot (2020) Linocut and lithograph with hand-coloring $600
Ana Lรณpez-Montes Mexico Isabelle and I (2020) Monotype with collage
Melanie Kohler CT, USA Together / Apart (2020) Letterpress $200
Dawn Leone NY, USA Drift-scape (2020) Reduction woodcut $450
Henry Korwald Germany Coffin Corner (2020) Woodcut $280
Suzanne Lewis RI, USA Tiger Lillies and Sunflowers (2020) Reduction linocut and pochoir $195
Chris Lawry Australia Road Trip in Western Victoria, Silo Art after Rone (2020) Linocut $250 Chris Lawry Australia Road Trip in Western Victoria, Dust (2020) Linocut $250 Honorable Mention Andrew Lawson TX, USA Fragmentation (2020) Intaglio $1000 Ellen Lazarus NY, USA Alone, Together #2 (2020) Monotype $750 Channing Lefebvre NY, USA Color Square Snarl (2020) Drypoint $250
Judith Long ME, USA Organic Schism (2020) Monotype $400 Ana Lรณpez-Montes Mexico Isabelle and I (2020) Monotype with collage $300 Cynthia MacCollum CT, USA Sunday (2020) Monotype with collage $450 Bernadette Madden Ireland Midnight Woods (2014) Screenprint $400 Helene Manzo NY, USA Windy (2020) Monotype $800 Leonardo Marenghi Italy Difendi (2020) Woodcut $120
Gervasio Robles Hurtado South Africa Next time be kind with them all Etching and aquatint
Andre Matyushin Russia Cherry Blossom, White (2018) Linocut $75
Ivan Ninov Bulgaria Fragment (2019) Drypoint $250
John McKaig PA, USA HHMS Mansfield (2018) Lithograph $400
Malgorzata Oakes NY, USA Passing Horizon I (2019) Electro-etch softground and silk aquatint $500
Susan Miiller NY, USA Gulls 4 (2019) Monoprint $500
Heidi Palmer CT, USA Juncos (2020) Monotype $300
Joseph Moore MA, USA HB Garden of Earthly Delights (2020) Etching and aquatint with chine collĂŠ $500
DeAnn Prosia NJ, USA The Wave (2020) Line etching $400
Meaghan Morrow CT, USA Party Foul (2020) Lithograph rinsed print $75
Gervasio Robles Hurtado South Africa Next time be kind with them all (2018) Etching and aquatint $100
Danuta Muszynska OR, USA FOOTPRINT Night (2016) Intaglio and embossing $180
Agustin Rojas Canada The Broken Tree (2019) Drypoint $400
Nanako Nagai Japan TV and Sofa (2020) Woodcut $500
Christiane Roy Canada Traces (2018) Copper engraving $400
Pat Stevens OR, USA Crossing Catherine Creek Linocut
Amy Sands MN, USA Astra II (2020) Screenprint and paper cut with hand-coloring $1000
Mike Sonnichsen ID, USA Future Garden (from 1:4 bars series) (2020) Letterpress $900
Martin Schumacher MA, USA North Country Winter (2019) Digital $450
Pat Stevens OR, USA Crossing Catherine Creek (2020) Linocut $95
Ellen Shattuck Pierce MA, USA Ironing 1 (2019) Relief with collage $400
Roger Sutcliffe Canada Spring (2020) Collagraph $200
Lynita Shimizu CT, USA Papa’s Farm (2020) Mokuhanga $200
Jami Taback CA, USA Pandemic’s Box 1 (2020) Collagraph and letterpress with collage $500
Christopher Shore NY, USA Horseshoe Falls (2020) Cardboard relief rinsed print $700 Amy Silberkleit NY, USA Woods Road, March Snow (2020) Lithograph $175 Amy Silberkleit NY, USA 1918 (2020) Lithograph $175
Gilead Tadmor MA, USA A Gloomy Angel Blowing a Horn (2020) Etching $250 Melinda Tepler NY, USA Violet and White Iris (2020) Monotype $500 Adrian Tio MA, USA Dinero (2020) Wooduct $250
Joyce Ellen Weinstein NY, USA The Dance of Life Linocut
Anna Trojanowska Poland Muscle Memory 2 (2018) Lithograph $400 Second Place Sergei Tsvetkov MA, USA Quadro I (2020) Etching $800 Joshua Unikel TX, USA Traces, Strata, Language (2020) Screenprint and digital print $750 Jen Watson UT, USA Graft (2019) Screenprint $100
Carolyn Webb MA, USA What Was Scattered, 02 (2018) Drypoint and collagraph with hand-coloring $800 Joyce Ellen Weinstein NY, USA The Dance of Life (2019) Linocut $275 Yuemei Zhang CT, USA Crossing IIII (2019) Etching $850
Jane Cooper, NY, USA, Postlude, Monotype on aluminum leaf with hand additions, Binnie Birstein Memorial Award
ABOUT THE BINNIE BIRSTEIN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Binnie Birstein was a painter, printmaker, teacher and active member of the Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP) for many years. It was Binnie’s wish to continue to support working artists at CCP with scholarships for classes. A small team of artists worked with the Center for Contemporary Printmaking to create prizes and cash awards for artists exhibiting at CCP. To donate to this fund, visit Contemprints.org/education/birstein-fund.
Barry Goldstein, NC, USA, Sunset @ Kiawah, Digital, Binnie Birstein Memorial Award
ABOUT CCP The Center for Contemporary Printmaking is a nonprofit multimedia studio and gallery dedicated to the art of the print. At CCP artists can work independently, collaborate with staff printers, or enroll in workshops conducted by nationally-recognized artists. Exhibitions of original prints are held regularly in the gallery, and diverse educational programs are offered for experienced and emerging artists. We wish to acknowledge and thank the following foundations and organizations for their help and support in enabling the Center to service the community and the tri-state area. National Endowment for the Arts Awagami Factory City of Norwalk, CT Connecticut Art Trail Low Road Foundation Norwalk Advisory Commission on the Arts & Culture Wescustogo Foundation The Shanley Family Foundation
On the front cover, top to bottom: First Place and Awagami Paper Award: Christine Aaron, USA, Path, Monotype Second Place Winner: Anna Trojanowska, Poland, Muscle Memory 2, Lithograph Third Place Winner: Kyle Chaput, USA, Rio Bravo III-III, Lithograph, laser-engraving, and screenprint Third Place Winner: Joanna Anos, USA, Had We World Enough (Four Corners), Engraving relief with chine collĂŠ
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