Gallery Z will be hosting an exhibition of “Prints and Multiples” from July 15 through August 30, 2008. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, July 17, from 5-9 pm.

With substandard or misrepresented reproductions often surfacing on today’s art market, Gallery Z will provide examples of the various skilled processes that provide authentic prints. The show will serve as an exploration into the history of prints and multiples reflected against social, political, industrial or purely aesthetic contexts, spanning the larger history of art.

To correctly classify a work as a “print”, one must consider the means of its creation. A true print is very much a valued form of art, as each is conceived and executed by the hand of a skilled artist. Once we examine the context in which a print was created, each begins to take on a unique or even important role in its original time and place of conception.

Gallery Z will showcase the numerous techniques used by printmakers that include limited edition prints, lithographs, woodcuts, etchings, engravings and serigraphs. Explanations of each process will accompany the work in order to enhance the understanding of the work that these artists create for art collectors and art admirers alike.

This exhibition will include distinguished work by Jean Carzou, Marc Chagall, Albrecht Dürer, Salvador Dalí, Honoré Daumier, Edward Linley Sambourne, Hovsep Pushman, Harutune Hovhanesian, Aristide Maillol, Karnig Nalbandian, Japanese and Venetian prints and etchings by local artist Carol Travers Lummus.

Researcher and Gallery Z assistant Derek Mearns conducted all research regarding the artwork that will be featured in the July and August show.