2010 Harnett Biennial of American Prints

The 2010 Harnett Biennial of American Prints is the ninth competitive national exhibition organized by the University of Richmond Museums and is a celebration of contemporary printmaking by artists throughout the United States. The juror, Laura Kruger, Curator of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York, selected forty-six artists from twenty states from entries submitted by 131 artists.  The exhibition is on view from October 21 to December 5, 2010.

In her juror’s statement, Kruger says, “I have always understood that the voice of a printmaker has a distinct resonance in the large world of fine art.  Far from being a matter of multiples, prints, with their range of techniques, enable the artist to create subtle nuanced images which are different from drawings, pastels, ink, watercolors, and other singular images. I was privileged to consider the full vocabulary of printmaking including monoprints, engravings, intaglios, photography as well as photomontage, etching, lithographic processes, papiers colle, silkscreen, woodcut, and linocut.”

Kruger continues, “Jurying material for inclusion in an exhibition is a different procedure than curating an exhibition itself. The former is a selection process in which submissions are assessed for technical skill, clarity of purpose, singularity of content and overall composition. I am generally interested in content driven art, asking myself what was the artist’s intent and has that message made an impact. When written text has been incorporated, is it elucidating, provocative, evocative of a special time or place?”

The participating artists are: Audrey Anastasi (Brooklyn, NY), David Avery (San Francisco, CA), Karen Butler  (Norwalk, CT), James Crable  (Harrisonburg, VA),  Michael Dal Cerro  (Lyndhurst,  NJ), S. L. Dickey (Columbus, MS), Carrie Ida Edinger (Newark, DE), Alan D. Entin (Richmond, VA), Richard Finch (Bloomington, IL), Julie Floss (Laurinburg, NC), Robin Gibson (Huntingdon, PA), Leslie A. Golomb (Pittsburgh, PA), Dirk Hagner (San Juan Capistrano, CA), Andrew Hershey (Omaha, NE), Alan Hobscheid (Chicago, IL), Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin (Long Lake, MN), Louis Joyner (Richmond, VA), Bizhan Khodabandeh (Richmond, VA), Brian Kreydatus (Williamsburg, VA), Anthony Lazorko (Mesilla, NM), Stephen Marc (Tempe, AZ), Anne May (Virginia Beach, VA), Dan McCormack (Accord, NY), Lindsay McCulloch (Silver Spring, MD), Nancy McIntyre (Alexandria, VA), R. Bruce Muirhead (Clinton, NY), Jake Muirhead (Takoma Park, MD), Frances Myers (Hollandale, WI), Alkan Nallbani (Maplewood, NJ), Thomas Nawrocki (Columbus, MS), Lee Newman (Kensington, MD), Frederick Nichols (Barboursville, VA), Akemi Ohira (Charlottesville, VA), Tom J. Raneses (McLean, VA), Mark Renner (Arlington, TX), Ronald Rigge (Pleasanton, CA), Deborah Rosenthal (New York, NY), Merrill Shatzman (Durham, NC), Gordon K. Sherman (Hays, KS), Ralph L. Steeds (Red Springs, NC), Ephraim Steinberg (Richmond, VA), D. B. Stovall (Rockville, MD), Tracy Templeton (Ashland, OR), Caroline Thorington (Bethesda, MD), Laura Yang (Wilmington, DE), and Ann Zahn (Bethesda, MD).