Out of Print illustrates the impetus of new artists to push the limits of the printmaking medium. It also presents work by those artists and instructors who encouraged the younger generation of Alberta print artists to break traditional boundaries and explore fresh parameters of printmaking.

The show is presented in two major segments. The main segment focuses on a new generation of print artists whose work challenges the traditional notion of printmaking and established uses of the multiple process. This segment of the show sets out a ground for the artistic debate between young print artists from Calgary and Edmonton: Mike Bowman, Marna Bunnell, Marjan Eggermont, Doug Fink, Brad Harms, Ducan MacKenzie, Jeremy Mayne, Maria Anna Parolin, Mark Siegner, Tadeusz Warszynski and Angus Wyatt.

Works include mixed media that incorporate some aspect of printmaking, images that have been digitally created or altered, prints that are one of a kind, editioned prints, and prints that have not been printed, or prints that have been executed on material other than paper. Examples of techniques used include etched steel plates, collograph prints over steel light boxes, monoprints on plexiglass, collage prints and offset lithographs.

The adjunct segment features works by senior Alberta print artists who have influenced the new generation of print artists. Artists including J.K. Esier, Liz Ingram, Walter Jule, Bill Laing, Margaret May, Lyndal Osborne, Noburu Sawai, Ken Webb and John Will have been selected to honour their contributions in establishing new aesthetic foundations, and to elevating Alberta printmaking to international prominence.

Deborah Herringer and Carl Danker
Guest Curators