Carrie Moyer - Works from the Lower East Side Printshop Archives New York Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | Phillips

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  • “For Moyer, the print medium, with its inherent reproducibility, represents the flip side of painting. Her choice to work in screenprint enabled her to photographically reproduce the political and utopian graphics and emblems, rather than hand-paint them as she does on canvas. Her series of three prints, For Sister Corita, pays homage to Sister Corita Kent, who ran the art department at the Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles and gained acclaim for her socially oriented screenprints.

     

    In the prints of For Sister Corita, Moyer combines images of a Buckminster Fulleresque geodesic dome, Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International, and the anarchist Emma Goldman—along with drips, blobs of paint, and brushwork. In For Sister Corita 2, the silhouette of Tatlin’s Monument is printed in lavender over the olive-green outline of a hand making the sign for a handgun, with its thumb cocked back and the index finger extended, and morphing into a gun barrel, from which issues a crimson brushstroke and a bloody drip. The melding of forms, coupled with the screenprint process, unify Moyer’s collage aesthetic. Two small strips of pink glitter, applied by hand to the wet ink, playfully animate the image and introduce a foreign element to the composition.” – Excerpt from Editions ’05 by Lydia Yee
    “People brought linoleum from abandoned rolls or loosened bits from kitchen floors. We found rolls of paper here and there. A local ink company gave us cans of drying ink. We had a few old rollers. We learned to use sharp knives pointed away from our own hands and fingers and away from other people. We ranged in age from 5 to maybe 70 or more. We worked together and taught one another. Oh we were dangerous! We were PRESS!”
    —Eleanor Magid, Lower East Side Printshop Founder
    Founded in 1968, the Lower East Side Printshop began as an open access art and community center led by Eleanor Magid in the wake of New York City’s two month-long teachers’ strike. Magid, a local parent and printmaker who had studied under Universal Limited Art Editions master printer Robert Blackburn, transcended the typical art education curriculum by showing her daughter’s classmates and neighbors the ropes of printmaking through the creation of books, stories, and illustrations on a press in her home. Once teachers reached a resolution and schools restarted, Magid kept her studio open for collaborative printmaking. The homegrown operation quickly expanded beyond Magid’s space, moving to the East Village, where the operation soon became part of the alternative spaces movement of the 1970s, offering groundbreaking 24-hour studio use nestled in the buzzing artistic and cultural hub of East 4th Street.

     

    Lower East Side Printshop at its old location on East 4th Street, 1980s. Courtesy of Lower East Side Printshop.

    Expanding their space yet again, in 2005 the organization relocated from the East Village to a facility five times larger in Midtown Manhattan, and the DIY spirit that inspired the start of the Printshop continued to prosper. Over its nearly 70-year history, the Printshop has become a premier non-profit New York City printmaking studio and resource that supports contemporary artists of all career stages and artistic backgrounds. Through the Printshop’s residency programs – which have hosted the likes of Derrick Adams, Jeffrey Gibson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dread Scott, Kara Walker, James Siena, and Hank Willis Thomas, among others – artist’s receive support through access to facilities, time, stipends, and technical assistance.

     

     

    In 2006, the Printshop was awarded Primary Organization status by the New York State Council on the Arts. This status is reserved for organizations that are, by the quality of their services and their stature, particularly vital to the cultural life of the state. Such designation is a testament to the important work of the Lower East Side Printshop, providing valuable resources that strengthen the artistic community of New York and promote the growth of the printmaking discipline.

     

    Lower East Side Printshop logo, with their ink roller chopmark.

     

    • Catalogue Essay

      Including: For Sister Corita, v. 1; For Sister Corita, v. 2; and For Sister Corita, v. 3

Property from the Lower East Side Printshop Archives

44

For Sister Corita

2004
The complete set of three screenprints in colors with glitter flocking, on Magnani Pescia paper, the full sheets.
all S. 43 1/8 x 30 in. (109.5 x 76.2 cm)
All signed, dated and numbered 8/14 in pencil (there was also 1 artist's proof), published by the Lower East Side Printshop, Inc., New York (with their blindstamp), all unframed.

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$1,000 - 2,000 

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Works from the Lower East Side Printshop Archives

New York Auction 16 April 2024