International Print Center New York announces the presentation of New Prints 2007/08: A Benefit Exhibition and Silent Auction opening in our Chelsea gallery on December 4th and running through December 13th, 2008. Celebrating the past two years of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, the exhibition will consist of a selection of some one-hundred recent prints by artists whose work has been selected for New Prints shows in 2007 and 2008.

All artists and publishers included in New Prints 2007/08 have been recognized by IPCNY’s Selections Committees, made up of prominent curators, critics, artists, master printers, publishers, and collectors including Dan Cameron, Christophe Cherix, Jane Hammond, Matthew Day Jackson, David Kiehl, Sheila Pepe, Mary Ryan, James Siena, Kiki Smith, Robert Storr, and Richard Tuttle (a complete list of New Prints Selections Committee members is available at www.ipcny.org).

All prints included in New Prints 2007/08 have been generously donated to IPCNY by artists and publishers, and will be sold to benefit IPCNY’s programs.

New Prints 2007/08 will reflect the breadth of the New Prints Program, featuring original prints in various aesthetic styles and techniques, ranging from traditional to conceptual, by artists at all stages of their careers. Among the artists whose work will be represented are: Lauren Abshire, Desirée Alvarez, Rosaire Appel, Walter Askin, AWG, Glen Baldridge, Natalya Balnova, Kim Baranowski, Michael Barnes, Curtis Bartone, Anders Bergstrom, Janine Biunno, Bettina Blohm, Marieke Bolhuis, Nicholas Brown, Noah Breuer, Suzanne Caporael, Phillip Chen, JoAnn Coffino, Nicholas Conbere, Terry Conrad, Briar Craig, Cathie Crawford, Leo Cunningham, Michael Dal Cerro, Eyal Danieli, Zev David Deans, Hope Dector, Rupert Deese, Jessica Dunne, Richard Dupont, Cecilia Enberg, Eduardo Fausti, Rebecca Foster, Klara Glosova, Bekka Goedde, Torrie Groening, Yves Guezet, Sarah Hauser, Art Hazelwood, Nathaniel Hester, Adriane Herman, John D. Himmelfarb, Yuji Hiratsuka, John Hitchcock, Judy Bergman Hochberg, Su-Li Hung, Anita S. Hunt, Alysia Kaplan, Eva Kask, Kathleen Kuster King, Maho Kino, Damon Kowarsky, Michael Krueger, Karen Kunc, Pelagia Kyriazi, Yvonne Leonard, Marc Lepson, Max Liboiron, Joseph Lupo, Brian Lynch, Franco Marinai, Kathryn Maxwell, Florence Alfano McEwin, Jill Moser, Heidi Neilson, Leah Oates, John O’Donnell, Tom Orr, Lothar Osterburg, Sunghee Park, Debra Pearlman, Krista Peters, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Sarah Plimpton, Ross Racine, Danielle Rante, Jenny Robinson, Susan Rowland, Roser Sales, Richard Serra, Kate Shepherd, James Siena, Barry “Butch” Sigel, Patrick Simon, William H. Skerritt, Richard Sloat, Kiki Smith, Shino Soma, Ewa Tarsia, Melinda Yale and Liz Zanis.

IPCNY thanks the following publishers for donating to the exhibition: Dieu Donné, Eastside Editions, Flatbed Press, Forth Estate, Gemini G.E.L, Harlan & Weaver, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Manneken Press, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio and VanDeb Editions.

All prints on exhibit will be available for purchase. An ongoing Silent Auction with a “buy-now” option will begin on the evening of December 4th and continue through December 13th, ending at 6 pm. The Exhibition and Silent Auction will give collectors an opportunity to purchase superior artists’ prints at a range of affordable prices (minimum starting bids will begin at $150) and to support a growing non-profit arts organization. Images and bidding information will be available on www.ipcny.org after November 20th.

IPCNY’s New Prints Program is an ongoing series of juried exhibitions of brand new prints presented four times each season in our Chelsea gallery. The New Prints Program has significantly impacted the field of printmaking by bringing to the public a range of excellent new work from an astounding diversity of sources. With the opening of its space in September 2000, IPCNY created a permanent, non-commercial open venue for artists, emerging and established, to exhibit their most recent print projects. Some 900 exceptional contemporary prints have been presented in twenty-nine exhibitions, illustrating a wide variety of print techniques, from etchings and woodcuts on paper, to three-dimensional and site-specific work, to the most current digital processes. By establishing this unique forum for exhibiting prints by artists at all stages of their careers, IPCNY moves forward with its mission to enlarge audiences for the visual arts.

A New Prints Touring Program, launched in 2006, has taken selected New Prints shows around the country, to venues in Chicago, South Carolina and Virginia.

International Print Center New York is a non-profit institution founded to promote the greater appreciation and understanding of the fine art print worldwide. Through innovative programming, it fosters a climate for the enjoyment, examination and serious study of artists’ prints, from the old master to the contemporary. IPCNY offers its members a program of workshop and gallery visits, artists’ talks and other special events, and has established an informational website and Information Center available to the public at the gallery. IPCNY depends upon public and private donations to support its programs.