6th American Print Biennial

The 6th American Print Biennial, organized by the University of Richmond Museums, is a celebration of contemporary printmaking by artists from throughout the United States. The juror, Marjorie B. Cohn, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, selected forty-three artists from twenty-two states from entries submitted by 115 artists. The exhibition includes a wide variety of print media including intaglio, lithography, photography, and digital printmaking.

In her juror’s statement, Marjorie Cohn states, “A print show such as this, which has solicited entries nationwide, is bound to provide an education, because contemporary American printmakers are working with the widest imaginable range of styles, techniques, and subjects. I have chosen the prints on view because they seem to me to be good art, whether made with tools as basic as those used in the fifteenth century or concocted electronically and printed by a machine unimaginable even a generation ago.”

She concludes, “I invite you to look at each print and consider not only whether I chose wisely but also what standards I applied. That’s the fun of original art: it provides a new experience every time you look anew.”

The participating artists are: Patrick Anderson (Seattle, Washington), Alice Bailey (Charlottesville, Virginia), Judith Baumann (Richmond, Virginia), Margot Blank (Richmond, Virginia), Tom Brydelsky (Jackson Heights, New York), Richard S. Buswell, (Helena, Montana), David Conn (Fort Worth, Texas), Sean Ira Coulson (Park City, Utah), Patricia Cudd (Freehold, New Jersey), S. L. Dickey (Columbus, Mississippi), Alan D. Entin (Richmond, Virginia), Stephen Fisher (Warren, Rhode Island), Charles W. Goolsby (Emory, Virginia), Steve Griffin (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Andrew Hershey (Omaha, Nebraska), Yuji Hiratsuka, (Corvallis, Oregon), Stan Kaplan (Levittown, New York), L. S. King (Lexington Park, Maryland), Betty Ann MacDonald (McLean, Virginia), Charles Massey, Jr. (Columbus, Ohio), Keith T. Monda (Brooklyn, New York), Benjamin Moreau (Madison, Wisconsin), Frederick Nichols (Barboursville, Virginia), Tara Parsons (New York, New York), Laura Pharis (Lynchburg, Virginia), Endi Poskovic (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), Nolan Preece (Reno, Nevada), Ronald Rigge (Pleasanton, California), Rachele Riley (Richmond, Virginia), Kevin Roberts (Richmond, Virginia), Jean Sanders (State College, Pennsylvania), Peri Schwartz (New Rochelle, New York), Keith Sharp (Media, Pennsylvania), Leora Sheridan (Crozet, Virginia), Christopher Shore (Bethel, Connecticut), Robert Silance (Pendelton, South Carolina), Marc Snyder (Hamden, Connecticut), Bruce Thayer (Mason, Michigan), Caroline Thorington (Bethesda, Maryland), Barbara Tisserat (Richmond, Virginia), Randy Toy (Richmond, Virginia), Paul Weiner (Somerville, Massachusetts), and Douglas E. Whittle (Spartanburg, South Carolina).