Curator's choice: E/AB Fair 2020

Ann Shafer

The second fair we never miss during New York Print Week is the Editions and Artists Books fair, known as E/AB. If the IFPDA fair is the grandfather of print fairs, E/AB, managed by the Lower East Side Print Shop (no small task), is the scrappy twenty something hipster. It attracts younger, newly established, and smaller shops as vendors, along with more established ones that prefer E/AB’s hipper vibe. That means you may not be as familiar with many of the artists on offer, but you’ll likely find something at a lower price point. In other words, it’s a great place to start as a new collector.

Martin Mazorra
UnMute Yourself, 2020
Letterpress
14 7/8 x 20 7/8 inches
Printed by Martin Mazorra
Planthouse Gallery

Vladimir Cybil Charlier
What happens to a dream deferred (Dream Deferred portfolio), 2020
Archival Inkjet print with screenprint
Sheet: 18 x 12 inches
Image: 15 x 10 inches
Printed by Pepe Coronado

FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture
Monument Quilt Project, 2020
Fabric and thread
96 x 96 inches
Booklyn

John Alexander
Ship of Fools, 2020
Polymer gravure with chine collé
Image: 21 ¾ x 17 inches
Sheet: 30 x 22 inches
Printed and published by Flatbed Press

Parastou Forouhar (Iranian, b. 1962)
Water Mark, 2015
Two-color lithograph and nine-colors pigmented over-beaten flax pulp paint on abaca sheets
37 ¼ × 22 ½ inches
Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia

Victoria Burge
Nets I-VII, 2019
Suite of seven lithographs
Each sheet: 12 3/4 x 10 inches
Printed and published by Deb Chaney Editions

Nicola López
The Vast Sky, 2018
Accordion-fold volume with screenprints
13 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches
Printed and published by Anémona Editores and TPT Gráfica

Alison Saar
Copacetic, 2019
Portfolio of eight multi-block linoleum cuts on handmade Japanese Hamada Kozo paper
Each sheet: 19 1/2 x 18 inches
Printed by Erin McAdams, Harry Schneider, Max Valentine, and assisted by Wendy Li
Published by Mullowney Printing

Raven Chacon (Navajo)
Horse Notations, 2019
Six-color lithograph
23 3/4 x 30 inches
Printed by Judith Baumann
Published by Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts

Martin Wilner
Arkopoly, 2017–18
Polymer photogravure (two plates printed with 35 colors plus black)
23 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches
Printed by Jennifer Mahlman
Co-published by Eminence Grise Editions and Hales Gallery (London)

Marion MacPhee
Diving Humpback, 2016
Etching printed in black and blue, a la poupee
64 x 106.5 cm
Printed by the artist
Glasgow Print Studio

Walton Ford
Pestvogel, 2016
Six-plate aquatint etching with hard ground, soft ground, spit bite, sugar lift, and dry point
Plate: 28 x 22 inches
Sheet: 40 x 30 3/4 inches
Printed by Wingate Studio
Published by Kasmin Gallery

Steve DiBenedetto
Receiver, 2019
Softground etching, drypoint, engraving, and aquatint
Sheet: 38 x 30 7/8
Plate: 30 x 24 inches
Printed and published by Harlan & Weaver

Mark Thomas Gibson
Banquet, 2016
Etching and aquatint
13 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches
Printed by Burnet Editions
Published by IPCNY

Dario Robleto
The First Time, The Heart (First Pulse, Flatline), 2017
Diptych: lithograph on hand-flamed and sooted paper, lithotine lift and shellac
Each: 11 1⁄2 x 14 1⁄4 inches
Printed and published by Island Press, Washington University in St. Louis

Astrid Bowlby
Everything, 2016
Stone lithograph
30 x 40 inches
Printed by Peter Haarz
Published by Petrichor Press

Deb Sokolow
Willem de Kooning. Geniuses are nothing if not complicated in their methods and motivations, 2015
Accordion-bound volume with graphite, acrylic, ink and collage
Closed: 9 x 6 inches; open: 9 x 44 inches
Western Exhibitions

Sebastian Black
Composition with Registration Marks and Other Marks, 2017
Five-plate aquatint etching with burnishing, soap ground, and spit bite
Plate: 24 x 18 inches
Sheet: 31 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches
Printed and published by Wingate Studio