Please join us at Highpoint for a reception celebrating the creative achievements of students in the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists (SPCPA) J-term course
A partnership celebrating the breadth of work, techniques, and styles by
fifteen esteemed artists with Jungle Press Editions
Join us on Saturday, May 6th at 12 PM in the Highpoint Galleries for the exhibition closing and a public walkthrough with Director and Master Printer, Andrew Mockler. Andrew will share behind-the-scenes stories about the printing processes, details about works in the show, and will lead guests through the exhibition on display at Highpoint.
The event is FREE to the public, but we ask that you RSVP here
Highpoint is thrilled to present a selection of works published by Jungle Press Editions of Brooklyn, NY. The exhibition features an array of vibrant and experimental prints by fifteen artists, including Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ellen Berkenblit, Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Nicole Eisenman, Sam Messer, and others. Join us for a public opening reception on Friday, March 31st, 7 - 9 PM. Artwork will be on display through May 6th, 2023.
The artists have collaborated throughout Jungle Press’ history with Director and Master Printer, Andrew Mockler, to create new work utilizing their themes and mark making styles, transformed into print medium. This exhibition showcases the breadth of work created at Jungle Press Editions and the diverse and bold styles of printmaking by the artists.
“A major part of Highpoint’s founding mission is to increase the appreciation and understanding of the printmaking arts and to expand access to the many contemporary voices and perspectives it serves. Over the years, Highpoint has partnered with international printmaking studios from Japan, Cuba, Pakistan, South Africa, Northern Ireland, the Arctic Circle, among others to bring exhibitions to Highpoint’s galleries to share with Minnesota audiences. Highpoint has also been proud to feature quite a few printshops from Canada, Mexico, and the US whose work helps connect us with current artwork coming out of communities closer to home. These partnerships introduce new artists to Minnesota, elevate the artists’ work and help advance their perspectives - which is foundational to the notion of prints as vehicles for communicating images and ideas. This spring, we are thrilled to recognize the work being created at Jungle Press, and HP looks forward to presenting this exciting art in our galleries.” – Highpoint Artistic Director and Master Printer, Cole Rogers
In 2022, Jungle Press worked with printmaker Jennifer Mack-Watkins to create two new lithographs continuing her exploration of themes of racial identity and history, injustice, and societal conformity related to gender roles. Space Boy and Space Girl will be featured in the exhibition alongside her earlier works with Jungle Press.
Painter Sam Messer's work from a 2020 collaboration with Jungle Press will also be included. These playful portraits of Olympia typewriters, an ongoing subject for Messer, using multiple techniques and handmade additions in these variable editioned works.
Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones’s paintings emerge from a perspective of what the artist describes as ‘cultural addition, combination and collaboration’. Born and educated in the UK and now living and working in the USA, his practice is inspired by the ancient history of West Africa and its attendant mythology, and by his Yoruba heritage.
Artists Include:
Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ellen Berkenblit, Elizabeth Cooper, Nicole Eisenman, Jane Fine, Jacqueline Humphries, Robert Kushner, Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Michael Mazur, Sam Messer, Andrew Mockler, Jill Moser, Katia Santibañez, Joan Snyder, Brian Wood
Andrew Mockler, Jungle Press Master Printer, visits Highpoint Center for Printmaking
Highpoint is dedicated to the mission of making printmaking accessible, creating educational opportunities, and continuing the practice of traditional printmaking techniques. Along with the exhibition, Highpoint has invited Jungle Press’ Master Printer, Andrew Mockler, to Minneapolis for the opening reception, and for a special members' event and printshop talk discussion between Cole Rogers, Highpoint Master Printer, and Andrew Mockler. An invitation will be sent to members by email and the recording of the discussion may be made available online.
Jungle Press Editions, founded in 1995, is a publisher of fine art prints and multiples by internationally renowned contemporary artists. Collaborating with master printer Andrew Mockler in his Gowanus, Brooklyn workshop, each artist is encouraged to develop an experimental approach. Working together in lithography, etching, monoprint, and relief printing, the printer and artist bring the artist's work out of the studio into the realm of printmaking.
Highpoint’s 40th Semi-Annual Co-op Exhibition
On View: July 22nd – September 16th, 2022
Opening reception: Friday, July 22nd, 6:30- 9 PM
Featuring: Refreshments, light snacks, and live music from Joe Haus (President of the Minnesota Guitar Society), plus 20% off discount on all artist cooperative member prints July 22nd and 23rd.
Artists Include:
Anda Tanaka, Belle Hulne, Beth Dorsey, Carl Nanoff, Cathy Spengler, Eileen Rieman-Schaut, Erik Farseth, Erin Leon, Gabi Estrada, Grace Sippy, Heather Delisle, James Boyd Brent, Jeremy Lundquist, John Pearson, John Schulz, Josh Bindewald, Kristin Bickal, Kurt Seaberg, Lauren Alfaro Nuñez, Lila Shull, Louise Fisher, Lynn Bollman, Lynnette Black, Megan Bakke, Melanie Eng, Melissa Sisk, Monique Kantor, Nancy Bolan, Natalie Wynings, Nicole Soley, Pam Carberry, Sally Gordon, Therese Krupp, Tyler Green, and Zoe Rogers.
Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to announce the opening of Hot Off The Press, an exhibition featuring 84 individual prints made by members of Highpoint’s artist cooperative. This is our 40th semi-annual, co-op members exhibition and we are ready to celebrate!
As usual, we are offering a 20% discount on all co-op member artwork during this opening event (July 22nd, 6:30 - 9pm) and during our gallery hours on Saturday (July 23rd, 12 - 4pm).
Hot Off the Press features recent work made by 35 members from Highpoint’s artist cooperative. The exhibition prints incorporate a wide variety of techniques and styles, including large-scale woodcuts, lithographs, screenprints, monotypes, and more! Most work will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition. Many of the 35 participating artists will be present for the opening reception, so it is a great chance to meet the people making the work!
Scroll onward to see a small selection of the featured prints, and for additional information
Artists and artwork involved in the exhibition:
The Highpoint Cooperative Printshop currently hosts 60+ individual makers, from self-taught artists to life-long makers, educators, Jerome Residents, McKnight Fellows, scholarship recipients, Education and Studio Interns, and more! It is a vibrant and active community brought together for 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!
Artist Highlight:
Meet Carl Nanoff. For the exhibition, Carl displays new works that represent some of the ideas he learned while studying architecture and art back in college, and the structure and forms he has worked with over the last 40 years as a draftsman and designer. As Carl neared the age of retirement, he returned to printmaking and joined Highpoint to develop ideas and printmaking techniques.
“Entropy is the first work of a series of prints titled Architectonic. The origins of Entropy began as a digital drawing. It was created as a large-scale print to both challenges myself and convey a combination of form and structure with artistically pleasing shapes – it represents some of my own observations related to aging. This work combines the left brain discipline that was required for work and the right brain chaos of my art.”
Entropy image also used on the Hot Off the Press postcard graphic.
Artist Highlight:
Meet Louise Fisher. Louise is a practicing artist and educator based in Minnesota, specializing in printmaking, photography, and installation. Within the printmaking umbrella, Louise creates relief, silkscreen, post-digital techniques (laser-cutting, digital printing), and also risograph and lithography. Louise has been practicing printmaking for 10 years and has been a co-op member of the Highpoint co-op since February 2021. Louise is currently an art instructor at the Normandale Community College, and also an active member of the Mid-America Print Council and Southern Graphic Council International (executive board 2019-2022).
Louise’s work investigates the built environment and architectural spaces, how natural and artificial light affects circadian rhythms and urban versus rural landscapes. “While day allows for productivity, night affords us contemplation, privacy, silence, intimacy, and most importantly – rest. Commonly overlooked, light pollution has drastically altered ecosystems, our biological rhythms, and our collective sense of wonder. For the Hot Off the Press Exhibition, I’ve been experimenting more with size (scale), materials, and process. I think the end result is a body of print work that’s a little untraditional. The smaller works will also be affordable and easy to fit in any space, and I hope a few of them will find a new home!”
About special guest musician Joe Haus: Like many of his generation, Joe Haus discovered the guitar while watching the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday, February 9, 1964, when the Beatles performed. He started guitar lessons at Traficanti Music in the summer of 1967 and used his first paycheck from the MN State Fair to buy a good electric guitar. Discovering that the members of the band Chicago met in music school, he headed to college to learn music and take up the classical guitar. He studied with James McGuire. Since then he has played at weddings, art galleries, and other events and venues as a soloist and with flutist Kay Miller. As a soloist, he performs an eclectic mix of styles and genres. He has been a member of the Minnesota Guitar Society for many years and is currently the president of the board of directors.
Ice Cream refreshments available by Leprechaun’s Dreamcycle
POCOAPOCO is pleased to present works by eight Oaxacan multidisciplinary artists whose varying mediums and perspectives demonstrate the critical and widespread presence of printmaking in Oaxaca. Utilizing print as an opportunity to unite their practice and voice, the artists in this exhibition connect around a shared desire to critique and communicate the rapid transformations of their territory, city, and home. Que Conste / For the Record challenges the limits of the medium stemming from possibilities provided by language, playing with the translation and definitions of print from English (printmaking - an artistic process) to Spanish (grabado - recorded or engraved). Based in Oaxaca’s comprehensive, historical and often quite fluid relationship to the discipline, this exhibition allows artists and viewers alike to reexamine their relationship to the practice of printmaking, in which grabado es un punto de encuentro (a meeting point), un recurso (a resource), una forma de repetición (a form of repetition) una comunidad (a community) la tradición (the tradition), una registro (a recording) un punto de acceso (an access point) una traducción (a translation) una lengua en común (a common language) y una voz compartida (and a shared voice).
Join us for the opening reception!
Friday, June 17th, 2022
7 - 9pm
This exhibition features work by the following artists:
Ana Hernández
Ana Hernández is a visual artist from the Isthmus region of Oaxaca. Her work reflects the knowledge inherited from the women in her family and her community and uses traditional techniques such as weaving and embroidery to discuss issues that have been present throughout the artist’s life such as migration, the loss of native languages, and the passing down of traditional knowledge from generation to generation. By using materials such as gold leaf, natural fibers and clay, Hernández expands the plastic and discursive possibilities of the popular trades of her land that have fallen into disuse. @hernandez.ana.hernandez
Adriana Monterrubio
Adriana Monterrubio is a textile artist whose practice focuses on working with leather, natural fibers and natural dyes as her main creative medium. Her process emulates the physicality of the material. She works with her body, her hands and her mind to transform the material into shapes and objects inspired by memory. Her sculptures seek to connect intimately with the space and the viewer by creating a personal language through which she evokes memories of her hometown. Monterrubio has participated in group exhibitions in museums around Mexico and her work is part of the collection of the Textile Museum in Oaxaca. @adriana.monterrubio
Evelyn Méndez Maldonado
Evelyn Méndez Maldonado is a dancer, performer, cultural manager, and producer from Oaxaca City. She has traveled the path of interpretation, creation and collaboration in contemporary dance and performance since 2009. Without institutional training, Oaxaca has been her school. Movement exploration in-situ is one of her deepest interests, same as collaborating with artists from all different disciplines open to establishing a dialogue with movement. She produces and directs the performing arts biennial Casa Abierta. @evelyn_m_maldonado
José Ángel Santiago
José Ángel Santiago is a Oaxacan artist originally from the Isthmus, pushes and questions the limits between drawing and painting. His interest in astronomy is predominant in his work, particularly in drawing, as well as his intimate relationship to land, nature, and the endemic animals of the Isthmus. In addition to paper and canvas, José Ángel uses wood panels, fresco, and ceramics to create pieces that address issues of identity, memory, and belonging through the use of symbols and characters in his work. He also reflects on the role of the native languages and local traditions as an element of identity within a society crossed by global issues. @joseangelsantiago
Martha Alicia Jiménez Sánchez
Martha Alicia Jiménez Sánchez is a ceramic artist working with sculpture, installation, and ritual practice. In her work she reflects on language, healing, beauty, brokenness and repair. Through clay and movement, she seeks to reconnect with her body as a woman and as a mother. She works with local clay that she and her son collect on a sacred site in Santa Cruz Papalutla, the town where they live. She hand-builds all her pieces and fires them using a traditional local method of low temperature firing. Her work has been exhibited in Oaxaca, Mexico City, New York, and San Francisco. @mujer_barro
Marco Antonio Velasco Martínez
Marco Antonio Velasco Martínez (artist-in-residence) is an artist, printmaker and educator. Born and raised in Oaxaca, he is the co-founder of Espacio Pino Suárez, a printmaking workshop and space for visual arts and is a member of Estudios Benito Juárez, a group investigating and discussing contemporary art in Oaxaca. He is interested in understanding and expanding the concept of drawing as an exercise in observation, recognition, memory, writing and as an object, working with issues such as violence, the political and the personal, collective creation and his relationship with everyday objects. Marco studied design, drawing and graphics at the Mesoamerican University, at the Centro de Artes de San Agustín Etla, Oaxaca and at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, Austria, Italy and the United States. @marco_velascomartinez
Santiago Rojo
Through sculpture, drawing, and photography, Santiago's work addresses the ways in which art can detonate knowledge about issues related to urban space and its transformations. Through field exploration and observation of the landscape, he generates pieces of subjective interpretation that highlight the changes in the economic, social, and political processes of a place. His work has been exhibited in different spaces in Mexico and in countries such as Brazil, Ecuador, the United States, Lebanon and Venezuela. It is part of the collection of the Museum of Philately of the city of Oaxaca (MUFI), the FEMSA collection and the Toledo / INBA collection. @santiago_rojog
Yatiní Domínguez
Yatiní Domínguez (artist-in-residence) is a visual and performing artist originally from Oaxaca de Juárez. She is co-founder of “Ojo Tres” a workshop creating ties between artists through graphic, photographic and editorial production. Ojo Tres is a member of MUTACIONES editorial -- a platform for creation and dissemination of the work of women artists. She collaborates in various multidisciplinary projects mixing illustration, graphics, audiovisual and dance. Her work investigates memory and boundary, exploring the relationship between image and movement and our human footprint, the way we move and the traces we leave. @yati_nii
