Formerly Known As Prints – Zea Mays Printmaking Biennial at A.P.E. Gallery

October 10-November 3, 2024

Reception: Saturday, October 19, 2-5 PM

A.P.E. Gallery, Main Street, Northampton, MA

Zea Mays Printmaking returns to the A.P.E. gallery with their Biennial Exhibition. The theme of the exhibition,
titled Formerly Known as Prints is transformative works, specifically focusing on pieces where prints have been used to create something else. Works that will be presented include handmade papers, books and textiles, sculpture, collages, even an animated video – all with hand-pulled prints as the starting point.

In the words of the Zea Mays Printmaking Exhibition Committee:

“As printmakers, we try to make resonant and meaningful work that stands on its own as examples of printmaking techniques. But we do live in a world where boundaries have become more fluid and permeable by the day. For this exhibition, ZMP member printmakers were invited to make work that explores the boundaries of printmaking.”

Works included in the exhibition were selected by juror Phyllis McGibbon, visual artist and Elizabeth Christy Kopf Professor of Art at Wellesley University. In the call for entries, McGibbon explained, “I find something poetic in the mechanisms of a print studio and am fascinated with the way that ideas can be taken apart, distilled, and expanded through a shift of context as well as dialogue. I value the kind of knowledge that can be developed by way of the hand as well as the eye.”

Formerly Known as Prints will feature works of art from: Laurie Alpert, Linda Batchelor, Anne Beresford, Whendy Carter, Willa Cox, Sarah Creighton, Nancy Diessner, Victoria Elbroch, Jennifer Gover, Ava Harper, Mary Hart, Mary-Helen Horne, Anita Hunt, Kate Jenkins, Julie Lapping Rivera, Tony(a) Lemos, Arch MacInnes, Tekla McInerney, Rebecca Muller, Lynn Peterfreund, Erika Radich, Bobbie Salthouse, Annie Silverman, Joyce Silverstone, Matthew Simons and Tina Stevens.