Prints from Rutgers Center at
Bradbury Gallery and Fine Arts Center

The opening exhibition for the fall season in both the Bradbury Gallery, in the Fowler Center and the Fine Arts Center Gallery in the Fine Arts Center will be 100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints.  This large exhibition will be shown in part in each gallery with transportation between the two galleries provided during the opening reception on Thursday, Sept. 2, beginning at 5 p.m.

Alejandro Anreusz Patria, 1999 lithograph, rubber stamp, colle' 28 x 22"	Dot Paolo Claes Pin Chair, 1997 hand colored lithograph 24 1/2 x 40 1/4"
Don Kennell Bird in Hand, 1998 cast paper with silk tissue and mixed media 32 x 18"	Jon Rappleye Season of Doubt, 2001 woodcut, lithograph, chine colle', hand coloring 30 x 22 1/2"
Philip Orenstein The Big Cheese, 1987-2000 lithograph, chine colle' 3 panels each 28 x 40"	To access   hi-res versions of   these representative   images,   click on the image

100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints shows the variety, creativity, and exuberance of contemporary printmaking.  The show contains many works in brilliant color, three-dimensional prints that look more like sculptures, artist’s books—even one that contains a CD disk so that the viewer can listen to the jazz that inspired the drawings in the book. The projects are all the work of New Jersey artists who had the opportunity to be in residence at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, located at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper was established in 1986 by Judith K. Brodsky as an international, national, and regional center for leading edge printmaking and papermaking ideas and education.  The RCIPP provides the opportunity to create new work to outstanding artists, in all media, who contribute new narratives to the American cultural mainstream.  These new works are of the highest esthetic and technical distinction in printmaking and papermaking.  The Center is one of the few ongoing print and paper workshops under the umbrella of a university.

Among the first artists to be selected for a fellowship was John Salvest, now professor of art at Arkansas State University. At that time, Professor Salvest was living in New Jersey.

William Zimmer in his New York Times review of 100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints, wrote, “Overall the show is a rich cultural stew. . . (all) contribute to the dynamism of the show. . . It is a good ambassador for the state.” Dan Bischoff in the Star Ledger, the leading newspaper in New Jersey, said, “It’s a sort of R&D operation . . . and artists tend to outdo themselves at RCIPP.”

100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints, showcasing the New Jersey artists, is traveling nationally and internationally for the next three years.  A full color catalogue with illustrations of the work of all the artists was published in conjunction with the exhibition and will be available at the Bradbury Gallery. Before starting its national tour, the exhibition has been seen in three different venues in the state:  the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; the Morris Museum and the Noyes Museum.  Additional United States venues include the Print Center, Philadelphia; the Pennsylvania State University Galleries, State College; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the University of Iowa Museum; the Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota; and Whitman College, Washington.

The New Jersey Print and Paper Fellowship Program has been supported throughout its entirety by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts which has also generously supported this exhibition.  In addition, the program and exhibition are supported by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

After the opening on Sept. 2, the exhibition will continue through Oct. 1 in the Fine Arts Center Gallery and through Oct. 3 in the Bradbury Gallery.  Fine Arts Center Gallery hours are 10 – 5 Monday to Friday.  Bradbury Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 2 to 5 on Sunday.  The exhibition is admission-free and open to the public.  For additional information please contact the Bradbury Gallery at 870-910-8115.

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