Hand Pulled and Digital Prints Are Featured
In Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus Exhibition

Brooklyn, N.Y. — A new exhibition at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus features the work of noted and widely exhibited artists who combine digital printing, hand printing, digital drawing and hand drawing in interesting ways to produce dramatically varied results.

The group exhibition, "The New Hybrid: Hand Pulled and Digital Prints," will take place in the Campus’s Resnick Gallery from January 20 to February 28. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, February 4, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Assistant professor Hilary Lorenz of the Campus’s Art Department is curator of the show, which focuses on artists who mix traditional photographic and printmaking, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen and relief techniques with digital printmaking. Among the exhibits is work by award-winning Bosnian artist Endi Poskovic, now an associate professor at Whittier College in California, who applies the computer to configure the drawings of his woodcuts, which he subsequently cuts by hand.

University of California at Santa Cruz associate professor Elizabeth Stephens uses conventional photography to obtain her images, which are later digitally printed. "My past work has touched upon and explored the ways that technologies determine how we see, experience and interpret the world around us," she says.

Independent artists April Vollmer and Maddy Rosenberg and Lynne Allen, a professor at Rutgers University, all start with traditional drawing followed by combining digital and hand printing. Michael Barnes, an assistant professor at Northern University in DeKalb, Illinois, employs the computer to digitally separate the color plates for his hand drawn lithography. Rutgers professor Barbara Madsen scans her photographs creating digital works that are afterwards silkscreen printed by hand.

Gallery hours are from Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday/Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call Hilary Lorenz at (718) 488-3361.

Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus opened in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. More than 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the University’s three residential and three regional compuses, including more than 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus.