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Virtual Exhibition: Final Impressions

A curated selection of last impressions from earlier Tamarind editions. Click on each image for additional information.

Hayal Pozanti | IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair 2020

The annual IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair opens tomorrow on Artsy with its first online rendition, including work by Hayal Pozanti.

Matthew Shlian | IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair 2020

Tamarind is participating in the first online version of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, opening today on Artsy. View new releases, last impressions, and unique works from Tamarind and the international print community. Online through June 13.

Danielle Orchard | IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair 2020

Danielle Orchard is one of the artists featured in the 2020 online IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair on Artsy.

Jim Dine | IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair 2020

Jim Dine featured on the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair on Artsy.

Dyani White Hawk | IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair 2020

Dyani White Hawk (Sičangu Lakota) has work included in the 2020 online IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair on Artsy.

Mark Dion’s response to COVID-19

We caught up with artist Mark Dion during the quarantine to hear his thoughts on the new reality. Seems artists are perhaps the best prepared for isolation. For an artist whose practice includes traversing wide open spaces, specimen collecting, and seeking out...

Danielle Orchard Viewing Room on IFPDAFoundation.org

IFPDA (International Fine Print Dealers Association) has rolled out a new format for experiencing prints. Following the link to enter the Danielle Orchard viewing room.

IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair ONLINE at Artsy.com

May 13 – June 13, 2020

The IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair is the largest international art fair celebrating more than 500 years of printmaking, from the 16th century to new editions by today’s best-known artists.

Tamarind Research: False Transfer Method: Non-Printable & Non-Interfering Matrix-to-Matrix Transfers for Multi-Run Registration in Traditional Stone and Plate Lithography by Perry Obee

Perry Obee (Tamarind Apprentice Printer 2019-2020) researched false transfers, a transfer technique that allows a design from one matrix to be transferred to another as a non-grease receptive (ie non-printing) transfer. This gives the artist the ability to draw directly on top of a previous design while knowing exactly how the new layer will register.

Tamarind Research: Photoplate Lithography Additive Mark Making: An Alternative Approach by Mike Feijen

Mike Feijen (Tamarind Apprentice Printer, 2019-2020) chose to research the addition and deletion of drawing materials on photolithography plates post-processing. His research explores a process of transforming a plate into a shellac base, and uncovers some new procedures, and the ability to reuse the photo plate.

Social Spot: Ian Davis by Nancy Zastudil

The black balloons and the somber white coat-clad doctors in the print make me think of the healthcare workers bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 crisis today. Without having yet consciously made this connection, I hung the piece in my office about a week before we began working remotely in observance of stay-at-home orders.

Social Spot: Ian Davis and Garo Antreasian

[Garo] and Ian hit it off immediately, they were chatting like old friends (common with Garo). Turns out, they are both from Indiana! Later that year, Ian and I had a chance to go see Garo’s show in LA, in a gallery not far from Ian’s house.” – Valpuri Remling

Social Spot: Ian Davis

The significance of black balloons in this is not clear. They represent some sort of negation, an anti celebratory symbol. Like a bunch of little black holes, some sort of loss is being conveyed. The men who have gathered for the purpose of this image are doing so for a somber purpose.” – Ian Davis @ Tamarind Institute

Social Spot: DuBois Data Visualization

This series builds on the data visualization pioneered by the social activist and educator W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). At Tamarind, DuBois borrowed this method of representing complex data in visual form as a way to make sense of harrowing contemporary statistics.