IFPDA Print Fair 2023 Highlights
Javits Center, New York
October 26 – 29, 2023
The IFPDA Print Fair—the largest art fair in the world dedicated to prints and printmaking—announces the exhibitor and public programme’s highlights for its 30th anniversary edition. In its strongest edition to date, the Fair will be welcoming over 90 exhibitors from 7 countries—from the world’s best print studios and dealers to renowned publishers—who will showcase over 550 years of printmaking, from Old Masters to contemporary works.
“Printmaking can be simultaneously one of the most democratic mediums and also create some of the rarest and most costly works of art,” said Jenny Gibbs, Executive Director of the IFPDA. “We are celebrating our 30th anniversary with programming that explores all facets of printmaking and connoisseurship, from Yashua Klos, with his take on Diego Rivera’s Detroit murals and the printmaking practice of Nuyorican artist/activist Juan Sanchez, to new scholarship from art historian Susan Dackerman on Albrecht Dürer’s fascination with the Islamic East and a highly anticipated conversation between Ed Ruscha and Christophe Cherix from MoMA. We are so thankful for our friends and cultural partners who worked with us to create this robust calendar of programs, both in-person at the fair and online for Print Month.”“The IFPDA Print Fair is the annual, must-attend event for print curators and serious print collectors from all over the world. This year’s 30th anniversary edition features an extraordinary number of highly rare old master works alongside classic, iconic modern prints, drawings, and new discoveries by young artists,” said David Tunick, President of the IFPDA. “We’re also very excited to be offering public programming with distinguished speakers that complements the range of material on view.”
Treatises on the Executed (from Robin’s Intimacy), 2022.
10-panel etching/aquatint from 50 plates 93
1/2 x 173 1/8" (237.5 x 439.7 cm). Edition of 22.
Image courtesy of Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl
WOMEN IN PRINT
Over 20 exhibitors at the IFPDA Print Fair will showcase pioneering women printmakers from across time and around the world, with many artists who explore women’s identity and sexuality. David Zwirner will present recently published works by Hayley Barker and breakout artist Cynthia Talmadge, alongside upcoming new releases. The booth will also feature historical prints made by Ruth Asawa at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Hauser & Wirth exhibits a range of celebrated women artists including Amy Sherald, Louise Bourgeois, Nicole Eisenman, Mary Heilmann, and Jenny Holzer.
Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl showcases Julie Mehretu’s Treatises on the Executed (from Robin’s Intimacy), a monumental etching comprising 10 panels. LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Harlan & Weaver, and Krakow Witkin Gallery will all present prints by Kiki Smith, one of the most influential artists of her generation, to exemplify how she stretched the printmaking medium in exciting new ways.
Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) will show new groups of etchings by Marina Adams and Charline von Heyl, as each artist continues explorations in abstract forms, ranging from paper shape cutouts to dense layering applied to intaglio and relief printing. . In addition, ULAE will show Sarah Crowner’s debut lithograph editions. Marlborough Graphics will present Louise Bourgeois, whose work with printmaking allowed her to fully indulge in experimentation through the reworking and reprinting of plates. Gallery Neptune and Brown will be presenting Night Sky screenprints by Latvian-American artist Vija Celmins.
Tamarind Institute will present a monotype by Danielle Orchard, who depicts women in their daily lives, painting their nails, washing thongs in the sink, alongside a five-lithograph series by Henni Alftan—a Paris-based artist known for her intimate depictions of hands, knitwear, hosiery and fur—and lithographs by Native American visual artist Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith.
Image courtesy of Childs Gallery
MODERNISTS AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES
Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl—the famed Los Angeles print publisher—will spotlight a presentation of lithographs by Ellsworth Kelly in celebration of the artist’s centennial, alongside works by Richard Serra that exemplify his 50 years of collaborations with Gemini and a new series of prints by Frank Gehry. Childs Gallery will showcase works by American realist artist Edward Hopper and esteemed Mexican muralist, painter, and lithographer José Clemente Orozco.
William P. Carl Fine Prints—which specializes in modern prints from 1880–1960—will present iconic images by Charles Sheeler, Joan Miró, and Grant Wood, among others. Ursus Books will offer a selection of publications demonstrating the involvement of artists in book making, including Henri Matisse’s illustrations of Mallarmé’s poems and Jasper John's masterful illustrations of Beckett’s Fizzles. Additionally, Ursus will exhibit a group of major books illustrated by women artists, namely: Joan Mitchell, Vija Celmins, and Beatriz Milhazes.
John Szoke Gallery will offer lithography and linocuts by Pablo Picasso from the 1940s–60s. Peter Blum Galley plans to exhibit work by Alex Katz, Louise Bourgeois, Eric Fischl, Yukinori Yanagi, James Turrell, Kimsooja, and Philip Taaffe, all of whom have collaborated with Peter Blum and Peter Blum Edition to create individual prints or portfolios over the last four decades. Long-Sharp Gallery will feature over two dozen works by Andy Warhol that examine the artist’s work in and about the fashion industry from his first years in New York to his last.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498
Image courtesy of David Tunick, Inc.
OLD MASTERS FROM DÜRER TO REMBRANDT
David Tunick, Inc.—the world-renowned gallery specializing in fine prints and drawings from the 15th to the mid-20th century—will exhibit a range of works by Old Masters, including Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, and Lucas Cranach the Elder. Brigitta Laube presents an engraving by Pieter van der Heyden, The Stone Operation or the Witch of Mallegem (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder), alongside works by Dürer.
Childs Gallery offers works by Old Master artists like Francisco Goya, Rembrandt, and Albrecht Dürer, alongside prints by contemporary artists, providing a thoughtful look at the commonalities and distinctions between old and new, traditional and experimental. Contemporary woodblock printmaker and political artist William Evertson presents two new pieces, Ginni and the Supremes and Samuel Beset by Dürer's Witch, emphasizing the current politicization of the Supreme Court by referencing historical prints by John Faed and Dürer, respectively.
On Friday, October 27, the IFPDA will feature a lecture by Susan Dackerman, titled “Durer's Prints and the Islamic East,” exploring three of the artist’s most enigmatic print projects: the engraved Sea Monster, woodcut Knots, and etched Landscape with Cannon.
If you want to speak to God, Speak to the Winds. 2022.
Image courtesy of Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
AFRICAN ARTISTS AND ARTISTS OF THE DIASPORA
A wide variety of African visual artists and artists of the African diaspora will be on view at the Print Fair. Crown Point Press will present new works by Nigerian-American artist Odili Donald Odita that represent his first exploration into intaglio printing. Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl showcases a monumental etching comprising 10 panels by Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu.
Hauser & Wirth will exhibit works by world-renowned artists Mark Bradford, Rashid Johnson, and Amy Sherald. Paulson Fontaine will present new works by McArthur Binion and Torkwase Dyson, two African-American artists that use abstraction to distill stories of oppression and Black liberation. Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop will exhibit a new series of prints by Dindga McCannon inspired by a publication the artist illustrated, Speak to the Winds: Proverbs from Africa. The booth will include folk art-inspired lithographs by Michael Kelly Williams, woodblock prints by Otto Neals, and lithographs by Michele Godwin.
Black Women of Print exhibits six contemporary Black women printmakers including LaToya M. Hobbs, Deborah R. Grayson, Althea Murphy-Price, Karen J. Revis, Stephanie M. Santana, and Tanekeya Word. Galerie Myrtis will offer works by Delita Martin, a master printmaker who often depicts women that have been marginalized, offering a different perspective of the lives of Black women. The booth will also include a serigraph by Nelson Stevens, a significant member of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists).
SAY A PRAYER, 2021
Twenty-one color lithograph with chine collé elements
Paper Size: 39 x 30 1/4 inches
Collaborating Printers: Valpuri Remling and Lindsey Sigmon
Edition of 20
Image courtesy of Tamarind Institute
INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES
Tamarind Institute presents work by prominent Indigenous artists, including Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith, who adopts aspects of traditional Indigenous art styles with more current pictorial aesthetics and imagery drawn from contemporary American pop culture. On the heels of her Whitney Museum solo exhibition, Tamarind offers lithographs from Quick-to-See-Smith’s nine-color lithograph series Coyote in Quarantine. Tamarind will also present recent work by Jeffrey Gibson, who was recently selected to represent the United States at the next rendition of the Venice Biennale, making him one of the first Indigenous artists to represent the country. His twenty-one color lithograph with chine collé elements, SAY A PRAYER, is produced in an edition of 20 and will be on view.
In addition, Peter Blum Gallery will exhibit monotypes by Nicholas Galanin, a Tlingit and Unangax̂ multi-disciplinary artist and musician from Alaska, who aims to redress the widespread misappropriation of Indigenous visual culture and the impact of colonialism in his work.
Castiron Calendar, 2023
Color direct gravure. 26 1/4 × 42 in | 66.7 × 106.7 cm
Edition of 40
Image courtesy of Crown Point Press
LEGACY AND INFLUENCE: LIVING LEGENDS OF PRINTMAKING
The IFPDA Print Fair regularly presents standout works by legendary, living artists with decades-long legacies in printmaking. Crown Point Press presents a 2023 print, Castiron Calendar, by Ed Ruscha (b. 1938) that reflects his use of words as subject matter. The words play against each other: “calendar” marks the passage of time, while “cast iron,” in its heaviness and solidity, endures. The booth will also feature prints by preeminent abstract artist Mary Heilmann (b. 1940).
Krakow Witkin Gallery, who will be exhibiting online, will display a wide selection of prints by world-renowned living artists, including 1970s lithographs by Richard Serra (b. 1938), etchings from the ‘90s by James Turrell (b. 1943), and silkscreen prints from the ‘70s by Robert Mangold (b. 1937).
Gallery Neptune and Brown offers important screenprints by Vija Celmins (b. 1938), while Kunst Kunz Gallery Editions will present historical works by German Neo-Expressionist artist Karl Horst Hödicke (b. 1938).
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop will exhibit a new series of prints by Dindga McCannon (b. 1947) inspired by a publication the artist illustrated, Speak to the Winds: Proverbs from Africa.
The Fisherman, Lithograph, c. 1970
Image courtesy of Aaron Galleries
HAIRY WHO & THE CHICAGO IMAGISTS
Aaron Galleries will exhibit a selection of prints from leading artists of the Chicago Imagists—an unofficial group that formed around the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1960s and rejected the approach of the New York art world, then dominated by Pop art. Instead, the Imagists looked to self-taught artists, Japanese woodblock prints, comic books, storefront window displays, and advertisements in magazines to inform their irreverent works, which featured grotesque figures, vibrant colors, and elements of Surrealism.
Chicago Imagists including Jim Nutt, Roger Brown, and Karl Wirsum are eatured in the Aaron Galleries booth. Both Nutt and Wirsum were graduates of School of the Art Institute of Chicago and began mounting exhibitions alongside four other artists, who together made up the “Hairy Who.” United through humor and the emotional power of imagery, the collective exhibited together for only three years (1966–69), but their contribution to art history is long lasting. The Hairy Who drew international attention to the Chicago artists during the 60s and catalyzed the broader Chicago Imagist movement, which extended into the 1980s.
Le Journal (W. 73)”, 1883
Etching and drypoint
Edition about 100
Image courtesy of Georgina Kelman
MUSES, FEMALE FORM, AND REPRESENTATION ACROSS THE CENTURIES
A range of exhibitors offers works that trace the historic representation of women across time in a variety of media. Georgina Kelman :: Works on Paper will exhibit women-focused works by Henri Evenepoel, Peter Ilsted, Eugène Delâtre, alongside artist James Tissot, who is perhaps best known for his “La femme à Paris” series that documented what made the modern Parisian woman unique in late nineteenth-century cosmopolitan society. One exemplary Tissot work on view with Georgina Kelman, Le Journal, depicts a fashionable female sitter digesting the latest news, and observes the changing ambitions of women before the turn of the century.
Galerie Henze & Ketterer presents a booth focused exclusively on Erich Heckel, one of the founders of Die Brücke, and his muses. From girlfriends, companions, dancers, actresses to casual acquaintances, in the graphic work of Heckel, the twentieth-century woman is often at the center. The female body inspired Heckel to create woodcuts, lithographs and etchings, in which he found inspiration for motif and style. They all testify to the artist's intense engagement with the theme of femininity—one of the oldest motifs in art—and its translation into modernity at the onset of the twentieth-century. Together with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, he rebelled against rigid bourgeois traditions and found in the female, liberated nude a metaphor for breaking away from conventions.
Links Together, 1996
Lithograph, A/P
Image courtesy of Dolan:Maxwell
Dolan:Maxwell offers an important lithograph by Elizabeth Catlett, Links Together, which depicts three Black women connected through hand holding. Catlett taught art at Dillard University in New Orleans—where she battled discrimination daily—and met her first husband, artist Charles White, while living in Chicago. She later studied lithography under Jacob Lawrence in New York City, and produced a number of works on paper that center mothers, daughters, and other images of dignified women. “The thing that I knew the most about was Black women, because I am one, and I lived with them all my life, so that’s what I started working with,” Catlett once said.
Black Women of Print presents six contemporary, twenty-first century, Black women printmakers who use experimental and traditional printmaking techniques on paper, wood, and textiles. In Need of Rest, a mixed media woodcut by LaToya M. Hobbs—a painter and printmaker who uses representational, figurative, imagery that centers Black womanhood in ways that dismantle prevailing stereotypes—depicts the psychological weight placed on contemporary women of color. A new quilting cotton screenprint by Stephanie M. Santana uses family photos and imagery from the Jim Crow Era and the United States Civil Rights Movement to invoke the legacies of Black resilience. The Santana work, When Called Upon / Gathering in the Wake, excises archival images and repurposes them to depict a stately, matriarchal figure alongside two Black children.
The Swans, 2023
19 color silkscreen with gold and silver leaf, 48 x 71 inches
Edition of 15
Courtesy of the artist and Two Palms, NY
THE NEXT GENERATION OF PRINTMAKERS
The Print Fair features numerous young printmakers experimenting with the medium (some for the first time), revealing a new generation of artists exploring the potential of collaboration with a master printer. Famed publisher Two Palms presents new silkscreen works by Ana Benaroya (b. 1986) that feature 19 layers of luminous color and gold and silver leaf to create shimmering stars. Harlan & Weaver offers a new publication by Haitian-born artist Didier William (b. 1983) whose work explores his Haitian heritage and the Black body, further defined by intersectional relationships to gender, sexuality, place, space, and time.
Jungle Press Editions offers a recent lithograph series by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones (b. 1992) that feature abstract depictions of figures in small groups or pairs that are characteristic of the artist’s fluid, rhythmic compositions. Krakow Witkin Gallery presents recent salt prints by celebrated photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982).
Tamarind Institute presents prints by young artists Henni Alftan (b. 1979) and Danielle Orchard (b. 1985), while Planthouse exhibits solid glass sculptures by Victoire Bourgois (b. 1987).
On Saturday, October 28, the IFPDA will feature a panel discussion with young printmakers: “Printing Contemporary; A Conversation with the Next Generation of Artists Making Print an Essential Part of Their Practice” with artists Jameson Green (b.1992) and Didier William (b. 1983) in conversation Elleree Erdos, Director of Prints and Multiples at David Zwirner.
Centaur carrying off a female faun.
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, over an underdrawing in black chalk
Image courtesy of Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
DRAWINGS FOR PRINTS: PROCESS AND INFLUENCE
Master Drawings New York (MDNY)—one of the largest art fairs for drawings and works on paper—will present a shared booth of the most important international drawings dealers at the IFPDA Print Fair. Offering a curated concept, Drawings for Prints: Process and Influence will explore the process of printmaking through the lens of preparatory drawings.
Including Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, Agnew’s Works on Paper, Christopher Bishop Fine Art, Libson and Yarker Ltd., and Mireille Mosler Ltd., the booth will feature a number of side-by-side juxtapositions of prints and their preparatory drawings. These works are particularly important in illuminating not only the process by which prints were made, but also the ways in which artists often worked side-by-side—correcting prints together in order to ensure the quality of the final prints. The showcase will include artists such as Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, Stefano Della Bella, Giambattista Tiepolo, Pietro Antonio Novelli, il Guercino, Carlo Maratta, Salvator Rosa and more.
The exhibition aims to explore the way in which the established aesthetic of prints influenced the practice of draftsmanship and vice versa. Throughout the centuries, many printmakers were draftsmen and many draftsmen (and women) made prints. This relationship of practice began to affect not only their ways of working, but also their ways of seeing, a theme which will be explored with a panel presentation at the fair with curators Nadine Orenstein (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Jamie Gabbarelli (Art Institute of Chicago), and Kim Conaty (Whitney Museum of American Art).
IFPDA Print Fair 2023 Exhibitor List
Aaron Galleries
Alice Adam
Allinson Gallery, Inc
Anderson Ranch Arts Center*
Atelier-Galerie A. Piroir
August Laube Buch- und Kunstantiquariat
Black Women of Print*
Burnet Editions
C.G. Boerner LLC
Cade Tompkins Projects
Carolina Nitsch
Childs Gallery
Cirrus Gallery
Conrad Graeber
Crown Point Press
David Tunick, Inc.
David Zwirner
Dolan/Maxwell
Durham Press, Inc.
EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking* Workshop
Eminence Grise Editions (Michael Steinberg
Fine Art)
Flying Horse Editions
Galerie Henze & Ketterer
Galerie Lelong
Galerie Maximillian
Galerie Myrtis Fine Art & Advisory
Gallery Neptune and Brown
Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl
Georgina Kelman :: Works on Paper
Gilden's Art Gallery
Goya Contemporary Gallery/ Goya-Girl Press
Graphicstudio/USF
Harlan and Weaver, Inc
Harris Schrank
Hauser & Wirth
Hill-Stone
Isselbacher Gallery
Jacobson Gallery
Jan Johnson, Old Master & Modern Prints
Jim Kempner Fine Art
John Szoke Gallery
Jörg Maas Kunsthandel
Josh Pazda Hiram Butler
Jungle Press Editions
Keith Sheridan LLC
Knust Kunz Gallery Editions
Krakow Witkin Gallery
LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies,
Columbia University
Long-Sharp Gallery
Lower East Side Printshop
Lyndsey Ingram
Marlborough Graphics
Master Drawings New York (+4)*
Mixografia
Moeller Fine Art
Noire Editions
Pace / Pace Verso*
Paramour Fine Arts
Parkett*
Paulson Fontaine Press
Peter Blum Edition
PIA GALLO LLC
Planthouse
Pratt Contemporary
RENÉ SCHMITT
Roger Genser - The Prints & The Pauper
Ruiz-Healy Art
Sarah Sauvin
Scholten Japanese Art
Shapero Modern
Shark's Ink.
SHORE PUBLISHING
Solo Impression
Stewart & Stewart
Stoney Road Press
Susan Teller Gallery
Tamarind Institute
The Paris Review*
Tandem Press
The Old Print Shop, Inc.
The Tolman Collection
Two Palms NY
Universal Limited Art Editions
Ursus Books
Weyhe Gallery
Wildwood Press
William P. Carl Fine Prints
Wingate Studio
Zucker Art Books*
*Invitational Exhibitors
IFPDA PRINT FAIR 2023
River Pavilion, Javits Center, 11th Avenue at 35th Street, New York
Öyvind Fahlström, Column no. 2 (Picasso 90), 1973. 
Art and Language, Michael Baldwin and Terry Atkinson, 
Edward Ruscha, 9 to 5, 1991 
Richard Long, A Line Made by Walking, 1967. 
