Our 44th National Print Exhibition explores the intricate and fascinating techniques of printmaking. Juried by Sachi Yanari-Rizzo, this year’s exhibition includes over 60 works by contemporary printmakers working throughout the United States.

Exhibiting artists: Brett Anderson, David Avery, Cameron Bailey, Janet Ballweg, Carlos Barberena, Christine Baum, Kate Borcherding, Cynthia Brinich-Langlois, Grant Brownlow, Jody Bruns, Bethany Buchanan, Jonah Buehner, Keith Buswell, Laura Cantor, Karen Carcia, Alejandra Carrillo, Lijun Chao & Andy Holliday, Jaquelee Chit Yu Chau, Art Cislo, Jennifer Clarke, Julie Cowan, Luca Cruzat, Richard Dawavendewa, Luiza Helena de Araujo Caetano, James Ehlers, Donald Furst, Amanda Gaebel, Steve Garst, Adrian Gonzalez, Mark Goodmanson, Mary Gordon McFall, Yuji Hiratsuka, Phillip Hook, Cornelia Huellstrunk, Joyce Jewell, Brian Johnson, David Johnson, Sarojini Johnson, Kazhia Kolb, Brian Lathan, Teddy Lepley, Lisa Maione, Anita Maksimiuk, Michelle Martin, Rachel Mindrup, Grace Morris, Nanette Newbry, Michelle Paine, Nick Phan, Mitchell Poon, DeAnn Prosia, Roxanne Sexauer, Egor Shokoladov, Sarah Smelser, Catherine Sollman, Joe Tsambiras, Mark Walley, Cassie White, Brandon Williams, Connie Wolfe and Nichole Wolz.

Juror Statement

By Sachi Yanari-Rizzo

I am grateful for this opportunity to be able to view the works of so many talented printmakers working across the country for Artlink’s 44th National Print Exhibition. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary essentializes a print to “a mark made by pressure” or “to make a copy by impressing paper against an inked printing surface.” Printmaking, however, is so much more as it encompasses so many different possible processes. Techniques can be combined, and the resulting prints can be small scale, in book form, or expansive, forming an installation.

When I look at prints, it is magical. I admire printmakers’ extraordinary imagination and creativity blended with astonishing technical skill and finesse. I am an art historian and curator, not a printmaker. Working at a museum, I look at art daily. You are tasked with continually examining and presenting art from different perspectives and contexts. Your taste becomes democratic, as you quickly learn to cherish the breath of styles, subjects, and approaches. This mindset couldn’t help but influence the selections I made from 400+ entries. It was exciting to see the rich diversity of works all high quality and deserving merit and conveying the artists’ overwhelming love for the medium. I wanted the exhibition to reflect this.

At times, I sought works that I hoped would show printmakers who pushed the boundaries of our expectations for the medium. Works appealed to my eclectic taste, from abstraction to realism to fantasy. I found myself attracted to artists’ use of narration, texture, pattern, and exploiting the inherent strengths of the various print techniques.

Prints are often not as big and flashy as their fellow mediums like painting and sculpture. They are intimate. Prints invite and entice us to come up and look closely. Please take time to study and savor the nuances, details, and variety of all the works on display.

About the Juror

Sachi Yanari-Rizzo has been on the curatorial staff at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art for thirty years in collections, exhibitions, and as Curator of Prints and Drawings since 2008. She oversees the Print and Drawing Study Center, where the public can view works up close and request to see works on paper from the permanent collection. She received a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.A. from Ohio State University, both in art history.