Weekly Update – old and new printing Center

Looking to the past and in future, the Print Center this fall celebration old school letterpress and culture-youth admired screenprinting.

Printing of Peter Hanley from displaying letterpress printing Center

The emergence of letterpress on the ground floor is a quick tutorial about typesetting 15th century invention of the Gutenberg and his recent position paper by artists as a tool for the paper and print-making. displaying, round up letterpress books and posters from the past 35 years from private collections around Philadelphia, demonstrates the nostalgic appeal of media-friendly text with the inky blacks and printing-plate embossment. Letterpress skews old definition, and Peter Hanley "gamma Digital" (2009) — print the title — shout some feelings about letterpress artists the unrelenting wave of the future.

Isaac Tin Wei Lin, installation details, Print Center

Above two solo shows, by Isaac Tin Wei Lin and Andrew Kozlowski, push the 95-year-old centre with a more modern instrument — screenprints. A "father" of modern screenprinting is wrote to you, OBEY and Fairey Obama glory. "When you I believe — that is, only up to and printing on the city walls — wheatpaste gave the DIY screenprinting and street cred time that appeal to many young artists.The Fairey combination old-fashioned technique, epic quantity and macho distribution facilities is now a traditional recipe.

Isaac Tin Wei Lin, each part of the collection is wallpapered, even the stairs to the attic.

Room 1026, where Lin was a member for many years, has original members who learned the art of the master installation Lin, "One of us" is a Commission from the Print Center, part of the new series "" Makeready on printmaking in contemporary art. ?Admittedly the type epic amounts plus unexpected installation, incorporating 600 pink and blue prints — meant to be, and you can wear glasses 3-d — wallpaper gallery walls and floor, turning the site into a cave dramatically psychedelic. ?

 In this cave, Lin has inserted a group clippings Painted and printed human-scale wood: cartoon cats.Walking through the big, friendly cats into the environment too, I thought the whole thing will move to the beautiful Museum Touch Note.I looked for some deeper meaning, but even with the print pattern bent corners bent lines as Islamic invocation script, the piece, while ambitious, is thin.

Andrew Kozlowski, screenprint, detail

In the back, Kozlowski forlorn prints mirror morbid fascination with young people with the trendy eco-train from oil spills, melting ice caps, deforestation and the reverse side of loneliness and hopelessness brings to any place that implied the future of a great Kozlowshi. Drawing artist and his works, such as "Triumph!," an image of a hand-built on a stick flag waving jauntily into a sky fuschia, ironic and passive.The triumph of them?And whose flag; For all printing beautiful colors and beautiful design, this flag may be a symbol of tradition, the bad guy WINS.Eco-topics work today is omnipresent art worldwide, but even if done tastefully, Kozlowski projects of irony-laced is nothing new to the discussion.

Andrew Kozlowski, issues of ecological wallpaper, details of the images of barrels of oil

And prints a specialist in the world of art, you're important, often providing an affordable entry point to aspiring art collector. If you have ever visited, this is a good time to visit the Print Center And be sure to spend time in the shop gift, a trove affordable prints from local artists.

Pulling from the history: Tin Wei Letterpress Isaac Lin: "one of us" Andrew Kozlowski: "Dear Tree Hugger …" Through November 20. Printing Center, 1614 Latimer St. printcenter.org 215.735.6090.

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