
Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop
September 7, 2012 - November 25, 2012

Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop
September 7, 2012 - November 25, 2012
Cultural identity, political and social
issues, portraiture, and landscape,
as well as patterning and pure
abstraction, are some of the many
concerns explored by the artists in
this exhibition. Among the fifty-four prints on view are works by
John Biggers, Moe Brooker, Joyce
de Guatemala, Sam Gilliam, Mei-ling
Hom, Ibrahim Miranda, Kenneth
Noland, Howardena Pindell, Betye
and Alison Saar, Vuyile Voyiya, Kay
WalkingStick, and Isaiah Zagar,
reflecting the range of Brandywine
Workshop participants and underscoring
the extent of the workshop's stylistic and conceptual reach. The spectrum of artistic
voices and approaches to image-making represented in the exhibition reflects the increasingly
pluralistic character of contemporary art.
In 2009, the workshop
donated one hundred prints by eighty-nine artists to the Museum in
memory of the Museum's late director Anne d'Harnoncourt.
Full Spectrum celebrates this
generous gift as well as the workshop's accomplishments over its distinguished forty-year
history. The workshop's donation is illustrated in its entirety in an accompanying catalogue,
which features an essay by Philadelphia native and noted contemporary print scholar Ruth
Fine, former Curator of Special Projects in Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C.
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Since its founding in 1972, the
Brandywine Workshop has become an internationally recognized
center for printmaking and a vital part of the Philadelphia community. Dedicated to
the creation of prints and to broadening their appreciation, the workshop actively engages
diverse artists and communities. In addition to working closely with local artists and offering
a wide array of educational programs, the workshop has sponsored nearly three
hundred residencies for artists from thirty-five states and fifteen foreign countries and has
toured exhibitions to over thirty cities in Europe, the Middle and Near East, Africa, and Latin
America.
Behind The Scenes
Brandywine Workshop Founder Allan Edmunds
In the summer of 2011, Ruth Fine, a Philadelphia native, artist, and former curator of Special Projects in Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, sat down with Brandywine Workshop founder Allan Edmunds to talk about the history of the workshop in preparation for her essay for the Full Spectrum exhibition catalogue. This video is an excerpt from their conversation.
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Full Spectrum Artist Bios
Visiting artist residencies are the core of Brandywine workshop’s programming. The residencies provide opportunities for both emerging and established artists to focus on printmaking, removed from other obligations and working in a supportive environment with a master printer for technical guidance. By actively seeking artists from outside as well as within Philadelphia, the workshop broadens the experience of its young interns and apprentices, as well as community audiences who participate in its lectures and educational programs. In its mission to promote printmaking as a fine art, Brandywine often encourages artists who are not printmakers to apply for residencies, inviting them to explore the potential of the medium. The 53 artists in the Full Spectrum exhibition offer a representative sampling of the wide variety of backgrounds and interests of the nearly 300 artists who have made prints at Brandywine.
Sponsor
The exhibition is funded in part by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Curator
Shelley R. Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings
Location
Honickman and Berman Galleries, ground floor