Wolf Kahn, Academy Print, 1999
THE ART OF THE CHOP
Collaborative Prints and Collages of the Sea by Lisa Mackie
December 20, 2019 – February 9, 2020
Opening: Friday, December 20, 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 25, 5pm
The Art of the Chop refers to the “chop” or seal, the embossed stamp usually pressed into the lower left corner of the print, a symbol of where the piece was printed. Lisa Mackie is a master printer and artist who has extended her expertise, creativity and guidance to numerous artists for over forty years. As she works with each artist, Mackie’s philosophy is to be the catalyst for the creative process and the consultant to create a print within the most effective technique or method. She is able to facilitate most printmaking processes—including lithography, serigraphy, monotype, intaglio and photo-based. She encourages the artist to engage, process, combine, and complete a print that mimics, but does not necessarily replicate his/her artist project. Her role is much more of a translator, sharing her vast knowledge of the language of prints and teaching the artist to “speak” in new ways.
MGFA has invited master printer Lisa Mackie to present a group exhibition of fine art prints chronicling forty years of work produced at her studio in midtown Manhattan. The Art of the Chop features a diverse group of well-established artists and their largely experimental, innovative, and vibrant prints that each made in collaboration with Lisa Mackie. A second exhibition, Collages of the Sea, features Mackie’s own collages and prints.
Artists represented:
Elba Damast, Marylyn Dintenfass, Amy Ernst, Mary Frank, Grace Hartigan, Darryl Hughto, Margo Humphrey, Wolf Kahn, Sol LeWitt, Alisia Mackie, Peter Mackie, Leo Manso, Emily Mason, Bill Murphy, and Jack Youngerman
Jack Youngerman
Orange Red, 2017
solarplate 3-color etching on Arches cover,
printed at Hampton Editions by Master Printers
Dan Welden and Lisa Mackie (PP)
18.5 x 18 inches
sold
Mary Frank
Persephone
2-color silk collagraph with stencil on Arches (AP, 32/35)
Film Forum, 250, limited edition
9 x 11 inches
$300
Leo Manso
Variazioni, 1981
multiplate aquatint collage with styrene print and soft ground, texture on steel with surface roll printed on Arches buff
41 x 29 inches
sold
Lamar Briggs
Adam and Eve, 1981
photo etching, hand painted by the artist
9.75 x 59 inches
$2000
Lamar Briggs
Forest #22, 1981
photo etching, hand painted by the artist
17 x 22 inches
$1500
Bill Fick
Green Head, 2002
linoleum cut with tinted moriki chine collé (PP)
26 x 18.5 inches
$1000
Darryl Hughto
Grotto, 1984
multiplate collagraph on Arches cover,
published by Merit Editions for Jack Bush portfolio, PP2
22 x 30 inches
$2000
Wolf Kahn
Verticality, 1999
collagraph and drypoint multiplate on Arches, AP 19/24
9.75 x 7.75 inches
sold
Emily Mason
Moored, 1989
silk collagraph with red moriki chine collé on Arches, p/p, edition of 30
20.5 x 16.75 inches
sold
Michael Steiner
Edition Print, 1983
soft ground on steel á la poupée,
grey moriki chine collé,
published by Merit Editions (PP)
26 x 14.5 inches
$3000
Margo Humphrey
Hatian Compassion Suite, With Only the Gods, 1984
silk collagraph, drypoint on plexiglass, chine collé
22 x 30 inches
$3000
MaryBeth Thielhelm
Untitled (Water), 1984
solarplate and monotype with wax encaustic
14.5 x 14.5 inches
sold
Sol LeWitt
Form – Forms Derived from a Cubic Rectangle, 1983
4-color etching aquatint, edition of 30, PP 1/4
15 x 12 inches
sold
Collages of the Sea
Lisa Mackie
Lisa Mackie received a BFA at the University of Michigan and a MFA from the University of Wisconsin. She then taught at the Massachusetts College of Art and was a lithographer at the Impressions Workshop. She moved to New York City and worked as an independent printmaker at both the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and at Kathy Caraccio’s “contract print shop.” These experiences persuaded her to open her own studio in Manhattan. For over 40 years Mackie has collaborated with many artists, making prints using techniques including monotype, intaglio, serigraphy, lithography and photo-based process. Lisa Mackie works in mixed media prints, paintings, original books, sculpture, video and installation.
Lisa Mackie
Horseshoe Crab — Here, Then, and Now, 2018
acrylic on canvas and board with solarplate
39 x 57 inches
$4000
Lisa Mackie
Horseshoe Swimming in Blue/Green, 2018
mixed media collage on canvas
39 x 60 inches
$5000
Lisa Mackie
Strawberry Moon, 2018
acrylic, oil pastel and crayon on satin
60 x 120 inches
$8000
