INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK (IPCNY) presents the fifty-ninth presentation of its New Prints Program, a biannual, juried open call for prints and print-based work created in the preceding twelve months. Titled Forms of Enclosure, this exhibition features 30 artists from the United States, Argentina, France, Poland, Canada, and Bulgaria.

While the artists in this exhibition are coming from different places and points in their careers, a common thread throughout the work is the shaping of space, both literally and metaphorically. These spaces range from Arel Lisette Peckler’s ghostly nooks, to Alicja Grobelka and Sean P. Morrissey’s architectural abstractions, to Enrique Leal’s biomorphic portals. Rashid Johnson, Kyung Eun You, and Kate Liebman
all use grids to build their compositions, while Judith Linhares and Ulrike Müller both use lively forms to thwart structure. In capturing the ways that one can actively create or resist enclosure, this exhibition shapes a narrative around what it means in the current moment to hold personal, social, and political space. The three awardees of the New Prints Artist Development Program will be announced at the opening reception on January 17. Check our website and social media for public program announcements, including artist talks and a Pint n’ Print workshop with this cycle’s Artist-in-Residence.

ARTISTS: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Susan Belau, Jill Burks, Susan Goethal Campbell, Allison Conley, Gabriela Esterovich, Caroline Forest, Alice Gauthier, Alicja Grobelka, Gary Groves, Lucille Holtsnider, Anna Hutchings, Richard Hutter, Rashid Johnson, Alison Judd, Enrique Leal, Kate Liebman, Judith Linhares, Mallory, Taryn McMahon, Zoran Mishe, Sean P. Morrissey, Ulrike Müller, Gail Panske, Arel Lisette Peckler, Claudia Rofman, Janet Yagoda Shagam, Rob Swainston, Naho Taruishi, and Kyung Eun You.

PRESSES + PUBLISHERS: 10 Grand Press, Aspinwall Editions, Hauser & Wirth Editions, Island Press, Planthouse, Print Nest Studio, and Prints of Darkness.

ABOUT THE JURY: May Castleberry is the Editor of Contemporary Editions for the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Elleree Erdos is curator of a New York-based private collection and freelance writer.Tatana Kellner is an artist and Co-Founder of Women’s Studio Workshop in Kingston, NY. David Sandlin is a painter, printmaker, cartoonist, and professor at the School of Visual Arts, New York.