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Associate Professor John Hitchcock in Multiple x Multiple

10/9/2009 - 11/8/2009

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1715 Volunteer Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37996-2410

Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 8, 2009, 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

John Hitchcock is among 15 artists selected for the exhibition Multiple x Multiple an exhibition surveying innovative approaches to contemporary print media at the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

The selected exhibiting artists were curated by the current graduate students in printmaking at UTK. Artists and studios selected for inclusion are Jay Bolotin, Lisa Bulawsky, John Hitchcock, Flavor Paper, Miller Lagos, Nicola Lopez, Barry Moser, Althea Murphy-Price, Dora Lisa Rosenbaum, Jenny Schmid, Chris Sperandio & Simon Grennan (Kartoon Kings), Swoon, Alec Thibodeau (Obadiah Eelcut), Jason Urban, and Chris Ware.

Titled “Multiple x Multiple,” the exhibition will offer a survey of innovative practices in contemporary printmaking stressing the aesthetic, conceptual, social and political role of the multiple. The exhibition will present printmaking in its broadest terms, encompassing uses of print media that are intended for both art galleries and public spaces. The exhibition will include works that use traditional processes and materials and others that involve experimental forms, from sculptural prints and installation works, as well as uses of print media in the creation of time arts. Some of the works in the exhibition stress the role of the print as a vernacular form, either in relation to popular print media such as comics, as a part of a new or alternative economic system, or as a form of creative self publishing. Taken as whole, the exhibition offers an image of contemporary printmaking that is grounded in traditional forms, but includes a variety of new media and democratic forms of practice that often push art out of the galleries and museums and into the world at large.