Publishing Prints: Selections from the Center Street Studio Archives will be on view February 6 through April 9, 2008, at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museums, and the Mirarchi Gallery, T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond. The exhibition is comprised of contemporary works by international artists that have been printed by
James Stroud, master printer, artist, and founder/director of Center Street Studio, Milton, Massachusetts, and are now part of the permanent collection of the Harnett Print Study Center. The exhibition features art
work by Jason Berger (American, born 1924), Teo Gonzalez (Spanish, born 1964),
Markus Linnenbrink (German, born 1961),
Todd McKie (American, born 1944),
Carrie Moyer (American, born 1960), James Ovid Mustin III (American, born 1983), Robert and
Shana ParkeHarrison (American, born 1968 and 1964),
Charles Ritchie (American, born 1954),
Richard Ryan (American, born London, England, 1950),
Charles Spurrier (American, born 1958),
Andrew Stevovich (American, born 1948), James Stroud (American, born 1958),
Kelly Sherman (American, born 1978),
Bill Thompson (American, born 1957), Roger Tibbetts (American, born Dudley, England, 1949),
John Walker (British, born 1939), George Whitman (American, born 1944),
John Wilson (American, born 1922), and Janine Wong (American, born 1956). The exhibition highlights the remarkable collaboration between master printer and artist that has been the hallmark of the Center Street Studio since its establishment in 1984, producing hundreds of prints of extraordinary quality by artists of national and international reputation. The wealth of artwork and documentation contained in the Archives is utilized as a primary source for both research and exhibition at the University Museums. As the repository of Center Street Studio`s ongoing artistic production, the Harnett Print Study Center provides students, scholars, artists, and the community with this important resource for contemporary printmaking.