UNDERSTANDING PRINT OUTSIDE THE EDITION: ARE WE STILL PRINTMAKERS?

As printmakers break from the hallowed edition and continue to work with print media and sculpture, new media, and installation, the dialouge lags. During conferences, we see hundreds of traditional and non traditional editioned work on display during portfolio sessions, bringing up a possible print related identitiy crisis. Do we as artists and viewers percieve the once two dimmensional work as different as it rises from the edition and occupies space. How do we continue to engage both the traditions of printmaking, while expanding the medium and staying true to our own explorations? Feeding from the open format of the INKubator, participants will discuss the puzzle that is sculptural print. Within this dialouge, topics of structure, shipping, multiplicity, and the eternal question of “Am I still a printmaker” will be discussed.

 

ABOUT GRANT BENOIT

Grant Benoit received his MFA in 2015 in Printmaking from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL and his BA in Studio Art from Spring Hill College. Working interdisciplinary in printmaking, utilizes screen printed and relief printed wallpaper that is quilted, sewn and veneered  that is used in installations discussing memory. Recently, Benoit has exhibited at DEMO Project in Springfield, IL, Williamson Museum in Wirral, England and The Printmaking Center of New Jersey. Benoit was a 2016-17 Artist in Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and is the 2017-18 Artist in Residence at The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts in Highlands, NC.

 

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