Print/Counter-Print, the exhibition of prints highlighting works selected from the flat files of the Peregrine Press (Portland, ME) and Zea Mays Printmaking studios is on view at the Zea Mays Gallery in Florence, Massachusetts. Curated by Virginia Rose and exhibited in March 2012 at Rose Contemporary Gallery (Portland), the exhibition is a wonderful dialogue between two printmaking studios. It will be on view May 12 until June 16, 2012.

FMI: zeamaysprintmaking.com

Peregine Press member Jeanne O’Toole Hayman has a busy summer coming up with work being shown at Richard Boyd Pottery Art Gallery (landscape and seascape paintings), Addison Woolley Gallery (prints), and Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery (ink drawings on vellum).

During the month of May:
Ten new landscape and seascape paintings
Richard Boyd Pottery Art Gallery,
Island Avenue, Peaks Island, Maine
www.richardboydpottery.com

Starting June 1st:
“Figurative” – Prints
Addison Woolley Gallery,
Washington Avenue, Portland, Maine
www.addisonwoolley.com

From August 1st:
Ink drawings on vellum
Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery in Center Sandwich, N.H
www.patricialaddcarega.com; and
New oil paintings at the Richard Boyd Gallery on Peaks Island (see above).

A Murder of Crows is at Åarhus Gallery in Belfast, Maine May 3-27, 2012. The gallery will also be hosting Ameranouche in Concert Friday May 11, 2012, and Tom Luther Quintet Friday May 25, 2012 at 7:00.

Åarhus Gallery
50 Main Street
Belfast, ME 04915
FMI: 207.338.0001 or www.aarhusgallery.com

Amons’ work will also be included in the 2012 Invitational at the Landing Gallery in Rockland Maine, May 4 – June 10, 2012.

Landing Gallery
8 Elm Street
Rockland, ME
FMI: 207.594.4544 or www.landingart.com

April 12th–July 31st, 2012

Boston Public Library
Copley Square
700 Boylston Street

From the BPL:

The Boston Public Library, long a collector of the finest examples of Boston printmaking, continues to support and promote local artists as it showcases some of the area’s newest and most intriguing pieces in a substantial new exhibition, reThink INK: 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio. This exhibition was created in partnership with Mixit Print Studio, established in 1987 on the ground floor of the former Mixit soap factory in Somerville. Thousands of prints by talented area printmakers have rolled through the presses of Mixit Print Studio in the last quarter century.

The more than 150 pieces in the exhibition by Mixit artists are divided into four components: the Portfolio, a collaborative project of 66 prints created specifically for this exhibition; a juried exhibition of 44 works; thirteen multi-dimensional installations; and selections from the Boston Public Library’s exceptional permanent collection of works by Boston artists. Several of the artists were inspired by the Boston Public Library’s support of their work and have submitted pieces that draw from elements of the library and its collections.

For more information about the show: www.bpl.org and about Mixit Studios: www.mixitprint.com/

Pulse
Flat Iron Gallery
594 Congress St
(across from Portland Museum of Art)
Portland, ME

Opening Reception: Friday, May 4 5-8pm

FMI: lizprescott.com

Artist Rebecca Goodale is showing artist’s books, drawings and prints at the Art Gallery at the University of New England through June 16th. In conjunction with that show there will be a talk “Education: Art Serving Wildlife and Students” at UNE from 5-6:30, tonight, April 23rd, with UNE Professors Stephen Burt (who is also a member of the Peregrine Press), Owen Grumbling, Michell Steen-Adams.

In addition, a review of Rebecca’s show appeared in the Sunday Telegram yesterday. You can read it here: www.pressherald.com/life/audience.

Art Gallery at the University of New England
716 Stevens Ave., Portland

Gallery hours: 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday

FMI: 221-4499; une.edu/artgallery

Postcards Posted to Postbox #59
Original Artist's Book by Sissy Buck
(more detail photos below)

… the term Mail Art was loosely interpreted for subject matter, but the ground rule was that each project had to go through the United States Postal Service…each needed a stamp with the cancellation mark. Each member chose a theme for her book, invited everyone in the group (and other artists) to create a page for her book and mail it back to her. Once each member received all of the pages for her book, she then assembled it into her own book structure. Some members incorporated an aspect of the mail system such as stamps, post boxes, envelopes, etc, while others chose themes as diverse as Victorian paper dolls, crows, paint chips, houses, maps, and even the Gilded Age. In this age of computers and emails, it was wonderful to receive letters in the traditional post box again. The result is a diverse and interesting range of Mail Art compiled into Artists’ Books.

Click! - Children's Halloween story by George Simonson is illustrated with six folios of original Red Squirrel Studio pastepapers and three popups chosen to reflect the story’s emotional tenor. Complex accordion structure. Size: 5.5 x 7.25 inches. Unique.

Three handmade artist’s books by Peregrine Press member Mary Brennan have just been acquired for Bowdoin College by Richard Lindemann, director of the college’s George J. Mitchell Special Collections & Archives. These acquistions were in part a result of a public lecture given earlier in March by noted freelance curator Britta Konau in “The Art of the Book,” a lecture series sponsored by the Farnsworth Museum of Rockland, Maine, at which Mary was one of approximately 12 artists whose works were shown and discussed.

One and Two – Artist's sketchbooks in two volumes. Abstract watercolors on Magnani Pescia paper. Handsewn and bound with a Hedi Kyle woven binding stitch. Covers are transparent polyester. Size: 4 x 7.5 inches. Unique.

Unhistoric Acts – Origami wallet book made of original watercolor monoprints on sumi-e paper. Text from Middlemarch by George Eliot is printed on transparent folios sewn into partially hidden folds. Slipcase and cover are monoprints on Mohawk Superfine. Size: 1.25 x 2.25 inches. Unique.

Bowdoin College just announced an opening for a one-year sabbatical replacement position for next year to teach printmaking and drawing.

Job details are here: https://careers.bowdoin.edu/applicants

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PrintMatters has announced PrintHouston: NEXT, a contemporary print biennial to be held in conjunction with PRINTHOUSTON 2012. Dr. Dena Woodall, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will be the juror this year.

Per the PrintMatters website:

PRINTHOUSTON is a month-long celebration of original prints, the artists who create them, and the people who collect them. Exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and special events at art galleries, non-profit organizations, print shops, and museums will happen throughout the city during June 2012.

We are interested in artwork that presents printmaking as a viable and adaptable medium. In addition to lithography, relief, intaglio, monoprint, monotype, or serigraphy, we are open to video, animation, installations, ceramics, sculptures, and artists’ books. We only ask that the primary technique(s) used in the creation of the work be those listed above.

4411 Montrose is located in Houston’s beautiful Museum District and is home to four blue-chip galleries (www.4411montrose.com). Anya Tish Gallery and Wade Wilson Gallery are also participating in PRINTHOUSTON 2012. In addition to the opening reception, PrintMatters will host special events and artists’ talks for local arts organizations and collectors in our month-long stay in the downstairs gallery.

For more information, and to download the submission form: www.printmattershouston.org