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Collaborative Print Workshop and Publisher Founded in 1978, Island Press is a research-based printmaking workshop at Washington University in St.

Louis that is committed to creating and publishing innovative prints and multiples, educating students and the broader community about print media, and advancing the printmaking field. In the context of intensive visiting artist residencies, Island Press explores the expansive theoretical and material terrain of the print. The Press is project-driven, tapping into the place where the artist's crea

tive activity and research intersect with the philosophical underpinnings of printmaking. Experimentation with new modes and technologies is a natural part of this pursuit, resulting in the creation of innovative and ambitious editions in a wide range of media. Fostering the creative relationships of the printmaking workshop is central to the Island Press mission. Visiting artists work in collaboration with the master printer, faculty, and students to create a reciprocal environment for education and research. Artists reap the benefits of numerous dedicated, energetic student assistants to help push to new levels of complexity and originality in their projects. At the same time, undergraduate and graduate students taking part in the development of artistic ideas gain access and insight into both the technical and conceptual challenges that make each artist’s project unique.

12/06/2024

It is 75 degrees and sunny and come by and say hello to us in Suite 157!
Cheers!!

11/29/2024

Join us at the INK Miami Art Fair next week, December 4-8! Island Press will be among other exceptional exhibitors at the Suites of Dorchester, 1850 Collins Ave, Miami Beach in suite 157.

The INK Miami Art Fair is renowned for its emphasis on works on paper and is a distinctive satellite fair during Miami’s Art week. The fair is free and open to the public with an opening brunch on Wednesday, December 4th from 9am-Noon and a Pulp Party on Thursday, December 5th from 7-9pm.

We’ll have new work and recent favorites by Shaun O’Dell, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Stephanie Syjuco, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Beverly Semmes, Radcliffe Bailey, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Paula J Wilson, and more!

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11/21/2024

Island Press is excited to announce the publication of Shaun O’Dell’s print series, CARTOPHANTASMS FROM THE TONGUES ABOVE.

Shaun worked collaboratively in residence with us in the fall of 2022, producing a series of four mixed technique prints in editions of 14.

“Working within a hieroglyphic lexicon of abstract and figurative marks, O’Dell investigates the colonial histories of his ancestors and their contemporaries to reveal the imperial roots of modern-day ecological change.”
(writing by Grace Earick, from the essay for Island Press’ PROOF brochure for this project.)

We’ll feature this new work at the upcoming INK Miami Art Fair, December 4-8, 2024 at the Dorchester Suites in Miami Beach.

image 1: URPFLANZE GIST, etching, relief, and silkscreen with chine collé on Hannemuhle paper, 23 x 17.5 inches, 2024

image 2: PARATAXONOMOONELEGY, relief on Hannemuhle paper, 23 x 17.5 inches, 2024

image 3: COCKLEBUR RESONANCE, relief with etching on Hannemuhle paper, 23 x 17.5 inches, 2024

image 4: COLD CANDLE, etching and aquatint on Hannemuhle paper, 23 x 17.5 inches, 2024

11/12/2024

We’re seeking proposals from under-recognized artists for our Artist Research Fellowship - a one week residency in June 2025 to realize a print project in collaboration with Island Press. Details on our website. Due date for applications is January 15, 2025.

11/03/2024

We had the most incredible week with Stacy Lynn Waddell in the print shop making big collagraphs! Stay tuned as we continue to develop and edition her project.

10/22/2024

As the Fall 2024 Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist, Waddell is here for a week-long residency October 21-25, working alongside students and printers at Island Press. She’ll deliver an artist talk as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series on Tuesday, October 22 at 5:30pm in Steinberg Auditorium.

A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, Waddell considers the authorship and idealism of art historical narratives and how they correspond to the economic and political structures of their time while highlighting contemporary issues related to visibility, desire, and power.

10/18/2024

We’re super excited about our upcoming collaboration with Stacy Lynn Waddell! As the Fall 2024 Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist, Waddell will complete a week-long residency October 21-25, working alongside students at Island Press. She’ll deliver an artist talk as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series on Tuesday, October 22 at 5:30pm in Steinberg Auditorium.

A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, Waddell considers the authorship and idealism of art historical narratives and how they correspond to the economic and political structures of their time while highlighting contemporary issues related to visibility, desire, and power.

Waddell has participated in exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, Pérez Art Museum, Miami and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum among other venues.

She lives and works in North Carolina.

Image:
YOUNG WOMAN HOLDING A FLOWER (for M. S.), 2022, 48 x 36 inches, 22-karat gold leaf on linen

09/04/2024

We’re super excited about our upcoming collaboration with Stacy Lynn Waddell! As the Fall 2024 Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Island Press Visiting Artist, Waddell will complete a week-long residency working alongside students at Island Press and deliver an artist talk as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series on September 24 at 5:30pm in Steinberg Auditorium.

A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, Waddell considers the authorship and idealism of art historical narratives and how they correspond to the economic and political structures of their time while highlighting contemporary issues related to visibility, desire, and power.

Waddell has participated in exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem and Brooklyn Museum, New York; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, Pérez Art Museum, Miami and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum among other venues.

She lives and works in North Carolina.

Image:
YOUNG WOMAN HOLDING A FLOWER (for M. S.), 2022, 48 x 36 inches, 22-karat gold leaf on linen

06/07/2024

NEW EDITION
Michael Joo
Noospheric (Trans-Alaska JWJ), 2024
Archival inkjet, silkscreen, and intaglio on Coventry Rag paper
7-panel print, 40 x 26 inches each, 182 inches overall

We’re SO pleased to finally share this ambitious and powerful project that we began with in February of 2020.

From the essay written by Jenny Wu, US Associate Editor of ArtReview ():

“Drawing from his background in seed science and penchant for technological experimentation, Joo works in media such as printmaking, photography, sculpture, and performance to contend with existential threats to humanity, the traces we leave on our surroundings, and the horizons where imagination takes the reins from science. Noospheric, the first installment in a thematically linked multimedia series, is 14-foot-long seven-panel print made using ink that contains pulverized trilobite fossils he collected while performing in the United Arab Emirates and carbonized wood from Wakayama, Japan. The artwork’s layers include an archival inkjet print of a panoramic photograph of an empty Alaskan road, where he, in another performance, walked against the flow of an oil pipeline. Superimposed on this substrate are silkscreen depictions of meteorites and wood. Additionally, snippets from his seven-year-old son’s notes on a book about orphans on the Oregon Trail appear in embossed and printed intaglio, intimating a father-son dialogue.“

Learn more and read the rest of the essay in the PROOF publication brochure on the Island Press Contemporary Print Projects website.

02/05/2023

Island Press attended Dario Robleto’s 10-year retrospective, the Hearts Knowledge: Empathy and Science in the Art of Dario Robleto this weekend at the .

Robleto discussed his work The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913), 2018, a collection of prints made in collaboration with Island Press.

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