Commedia: New Prints 2015/Autumn

International Print Center New York presents Commedia: New Prints 2015/Autumn from November 19 - January 16, 2016 in its gallery at 508 West 26th St, 5th Floor. Commedia was selected by Tomas Vu, artist and Artistic Director of the Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies (NY). The exhibition consists of sixty-eight prints by sixty artists selected from over 2,000 submissions. On view during IPCNY’s 15th Anniversary year, Commedia is the fifty-second presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized three times each year featuring prints made within the past twelve months. An illustrated brochure with a curatorial essay by Mr. Vu accompanies the exhibition.

In his words: “The title of the show, Commedia, is the original title of Dante’s Divine Comedy....Dante’s embrace and elevation of humble materials, and the specificity and personality they created, are reflected in the works I have selected....As the show has come together, it has been wonderful to see the works start to speak to each other....I see conversations starting in one place and finishing in another, I see the categories blur and then come back into focus, and I am taken to the same place Dante transported me to: wandering between states, striving for ascension.”