Three intaglio printmakers have combined their works for a show at the gallery at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University.
Jon Fasanelli-Cawelti, Richie Lasansky, Brian Lynch
Press Release (pdf)
Exhibition: September 30 - October 21
Opening Reception: Friday, October 3, 6-8:30pm
Gallery at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies
Columbia University School of the Arts
310 Dodge Hall, 2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Telephone: (212)854-7641
Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday
Although the three have distinctly different styles, drawing is fundamental to each of their approaches to image making; a hallmark in the work of the artist and teacher they studied with: Mauricio Lasansky.
Mauricio Lasansky, founder of the printmaking department at the University of Iowa and the Iowa print group, is perhaps best-known for his internationally acclaimed Nazi Drawings, 33 life-size and larger drawings completed in 1966, that along with shows by Andrew Wyeth and Louise Nevelson, formed the opening exhibition at the new Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1967.
Brian Lynch of New York City and Jon Fasanelli-Cawelti of Muscatine Iowa were among his last students at the University of Iowa. Richie Lasansky of Brooklyn New York, apprenticed with his grandfather after Mauricio Lasansky retired from teaching.
Jon Fasanelli-Cawelti recently returned from his second trip to Kosovo on a humanitarian musical exchange: The Muscatine Kosovo project. He will be appearing in Art at the Edge which opens at the River's Edge Gallery in Muscatine Iowa on Oct 4th, 2008.
Richie Lasansky exhibited large-scale, pencil-on-paper drawings in a one man show at the Jonathan Frost Gallery in Rockland Maine this past May. He will also be included in a portfolio presented by the New York Etchers press in early 2009.
Brian Lynch exhibited prints and drawings in (Sub)Urban presented this past June by Whitney Art works in Portland Maine. He will also display work in Ancient Echoes in Contemporary Printmaking at the Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, opening in January of 2009.
Drawing Beneath the Surface: Contemporary Intaglio Prints will travel from New York to several venues that will be announced later. For more information, see: www.richielasansky.com
