Spanish Prints Exhibit, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

SPANISH PRINTS FROM MICHAEL WOOLWORTH PUBLICATIONS

Zane Bennett Contemporary Art is proud to present a selection of prints from Michael Woolworth Publications based in Paris, France. The prints shown will be works from renowned Spanish artists: José Manuel Broto, Miquel Ángel Campano, Jaume Plensa, José Mariá Sicilia, and Miguel Mont. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, February 12, 2010, at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art (435 South Guadalupe Street) from 5:00-7:00 pm. The show will run through until Saturday, March 6, 2010.

The History of Woolworth Atélier

An American-born master printer and publisher based in Paris, Michael Woolworth established his atelier in 1985. Since then, his studio has collaborated with American and European artists and made hundreds of original fine prints and artists’ books. His shop specializes in lithography techniques on hand presses, and also produces woodcuts, monotypes, linocuts, etching and multiples. Michael Woolworth Publications produces its own editions and year-round, organizes events in galleries, museums, bookstores and art fairs. His first project was with the Surrealist Matta, and consisted of 90 scenes from Cervantes’ Don Quixote. The printing studio moved to an even larger space in 2003 just outside Paris in Malakoff, where he began, notably, working with Jim Dine, first with a series of sumptuous, large-scale botanical prints and, later, the extensive Pinocchio project. The atelier returned to an historic Parisian location in 2005, a studio in the Bastille. In addition to continuing projects with Jim Dine and Sean Scully, the studio also began collaborating with Günther Förg, among others.