October 2011
This Weekend in New Haven
Opening this Friday, October 14th is an exhibition of 30 works of art by contemporary photographers who have all collaborated with Paul Taylor. If you can’t make it this weekend, Paul will be speaking at the gallery on October 22nd at 1:30pm. Learn more about the art of photogravure and the work he has done with artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Robert Mapplethorpe, Aaron Siskind, and Roy DeCarava.
October 2011
Photogravure in the Boston Globe
“The process enables a sense of timelessness that now seems absent in an art form predicated on the instant.”
Don’t miss this review of A Century of Photogravure in the Boston Globe. We’re proud that the majority of the contemporary works within this remarkable exhibition come from Renaissance Press.
October 2011
A Century of Photogravure
If you’re in the New England area (or plan to be), a must-see exhibition is opening at Lesley University’s Art Institute of Boston on October 23rd. Featuring 20 artists and over 60 works of art, it is a rare opportunity to view this many prominent photogravure works together. Read more about it here (and thank you for the mention!).
August 2010
Sally Mann – Copper Plate Photogravure
Published by Renaissance Press and The Rhode Island School of Design Printmaking Department this stunning tissue photogravure is printed on twenty five year old Hosakawa Kozo a paper since designated a national cultural property of Japan. The photogravure plate was made and printed by Paul Taylor at Renaissance Press.
August 2010
New Aquatint Screens for Copper Plate Photogravure and Photopolymer Gravure
If any copper plate gravurists remember the Aquatint Screens made by Copy Graphics in Sante Fe, New Mexico they will be thrilled to find that new screens have recently come on the market that easily rival and in some cases out perform those wonderful screens. They are available in three grades. Fine – Medium – Course. The screens were designed and are available through Mark Nelson of Precision Digital Negatives.
April 2010
Robert Adams
The following link will take you to an Art 21 Video featuring Robert Adams discussing a suite of four copper plate photogravures made for him at Renaissance Press and commissioned by Fraenkel Gallery, SF and Matthew Marks Gallery, NYC
Art 21: Robert Adams
April 2010
A New System for Making Digital Negatives and Positives
In 2007 one of the last large format continuous tone films that I use for photogravure disappeared from the market. It became time to bite the bullet and “get digital”. I had guessed that with a couple of months of testing I would arrive at a reasonable method of creating desktop film positives for photogravure and, film negatives for a variety of other processes. I was wrong. I tested many methods of creating film using a variety of printers and inksets and methods. The results generated film for photogravure that was dissatisfying and lacking in quality. Nearly two and a half years later, lots of time, inks, printers, and material’s later I am finally satisfied with a new system for making digital negatives and positives.
Read more about Digital Film here.
