Highpoint's 43rd Co-op Exhibition

On View December 1, 2023 - January 6, 2024

Opening reception December 1, from 6:30–9:00 pm

Celebrate and support local printmakers and get some incredible works and gifts for the holiday season! Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to announce the opening of Prints on Ice, an exhibition featuring prints made by members of Highpoint’s artist cooperative. This is our 43rd semi-annual co-op member exhibition. As usual, we offer a 20% discount on all co-op member artwork during this opening weekend, December 1st and 2nd. 

Prints on Ice features 79 new printmaking works made by 38 of Highpoint’s artist cooperative members. The exhibition incorporates a variety of techniques and styles, including relief prints, lithographs, screenprints, monotypes, books, and more! Work will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition. Many participating artists will be present for the opening reception, so it is a great chance to meet the people doing the work! 

Visitors can expect to see a little bit of everything from maximal images of abstraction such as the large colorful, and hyper-detailed screenprint Desert Fire by Horacio Devoto and the hive of activity that is Lynnette Black’s Rhapsody. Also included are painstakingly rendered figurative prints like to be with you (holding hands) by Sophie Rogers and quietly contemplative pho-based prints like Catkin Pollen by John Pearson. If you’re looking for a gift or artwork, you’re sure to find something to meet the taste of every art lover.

Artists include Jon Mahnke, Anda Tanaka, Belle Hulne, Benjamin Capp, Beth Dorsey, Brian Wagner, Brian Kantor, Bridget Lips, Carl Nanoff, Carley Schmidt, Cathy Ryan, Cathy Spengler, Cedar Heffelfinger, Kurt Seaberg, Edson Rosas, Eileen Rieman-Schaut, Sally Gordon, Gabi Estrada, Grace Sippy, Heather Delisle, Horacio Devoto, Isabel Arevalo, James Boyd Brent, Jasper Duberry, Jeremy Lundquist, John Pearson, John Schulz, Josh Bindewald, Kristin Bickal, Lynnette K Black, Megan Wetzel, Melissa McElin, Melissa Sisk, Monique Kantor, Nancy Ariza, Nancy Bolan, Pamela Carberry, Sophie Rogers, Taylor Schumann, Tyler Green, Cathy Spengler, and Whitney Terrill.

Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to present On Looking, a selection of work by artist Fidencio Fifield-Perez. Including printmaking, painting, and installation, On Looking highlights the ambiguity of boundaries in artistic medium and perception and the experience of immigration, revealing that solace can be found in the in-between.

Fifield-Perez calls attention to this precarity by creating personal barriers within his work, from photo-realistically painted plants covering his address on immigration documents in his series dacaments to a moiré effect obscuring the text beneath intricate weavings in To Live Not Just Survive or to figures and landscapes masking the details of maps in his installation Surge. 

On Looking invites the viewer to delve deeper into different levels of observation, wander between them, and celebrate the undefined. We invite the community to join us for a public opening reception on Friday, September 15th, 2023, from 7 - 9 PM. The artwork will be on display through November 18th, 2023.

Cutting & Pruning by Fidencio Fifield-Perez

About the Artist: Fidencio Fifield-Perez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, but raised in the U.S. after his family migrated. His current work examines borders, edges, and the people who must traverse them. In his work, Fifield-Perez’s interdisciplinary practice centers on the materiality of paper ephemera, everyday self-documents discarded after fulfilling their purpose. For Fifield-Perez, printmaking, collage, and painting are ways to visualize and connect mental landscapes of the past and present.

Fidencio Fifield-Perez received his BFA from Memphis College of Art and an MA & MFA from The University of Iowa. He has exhibited at multiple institutions, including The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and the International Print Center New York. He has completed artist residencies at The Studios at MASS MoCA, Ox-Bow, ACRE, Crosstown Arts, and the Galveston Artist Residency, among others. He has been awarded The Eliza Moore Fellowship at Oak Spring Garden Foundation. He is currently one of the inaugural Dr. Harold R. Adams Artist-in-Residence Fellows at The University of Minnesota.

Highpoint’s 42nd Semi-Annual Artist Cooperative Exhibition

On View: August 4 - September 9, 2023

Opening reception: Friday, August 4 from 6:30- 9 PM

Toast to Highpoint’s outgoing Co-Founder and Master Printer Cole Rogers @ 7:30

MEGA BLOWOUT PRINT SALE:

Friday, August 4: 6:30-9pm and Saturday, August 5; 12-4pm

There will be TONS of extra co-op member work available to purchase during the exhbition. This is an opportunity for you to get your hands on some fabulous original artwork at a great price while supporting the artists and helping them make space in their studios! Don’t miss this sale! As usual, all co-op member work on the walls and in the gallery sales racks will be 20% off.

The 21st installment of our Hot off the Press will feature 84 examples of printwork made by 41 members of Highpoint’s artist cooperative. The exhibition prints incorporate all manner of techniques and styles, including relief prints, lithographs, screenprints, monotypes, and more! Most work will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition. Many of the participating artists will be present for the opening reception, so it is a great chance to meet the people making the work!

Artists and artwork involved in the project:

The Highpoint Cooperative Printshop currently hosts 70+ individual makers, from self-taught artists to life-long makers, educators, Jerome Residents, McKnight Fellows, scholarship recipients, Highpoint interns, and more! It is a vibrant and active community brought together by the love of printmaking processes. The cooperative printshop first opened in 2001, and a few of the members in this exhibition have been printing and taking classes at Highpoint since the very beginning.

Participating Artists