Durham Press 10 Year
Anniversary Exhibition
Dates: December 3 – January 23

Marcel Sitcoske Gallery in San Francisco will present a group exhibition of printmaking by the Durham Press from Durham, Pennsylvania. The exhibition, which opens December 3, is a retrospective of the ten years the Durham Press has been printing and publishing contemporary art. It includes 14 artists and some 60 prints.

The printer, Jean Paul Russell, originally worked with Andy Warhol’s printer, Rupert Jasen Smith, in New York. In that environment, Russell was witness to a unique collaborative relationship between artist and printmaker. He continues this close relationship with his current artists which include New York based Lydia Dona, Robert Harms, Scott Kilgour, Tom Slaughter, and Ray Charles White, and Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes, among others.

The artists work with a wide range of subject matter, media, and orientation. Whether it be photography, silkscreening, woodcuts, or etchings, the media employed is used as a tool to create an image which best expresses each artist’s language. The prints become a unique expression of the artists’ work, and something very different from the work they do in oils, acrylics, or photos.