The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression

Cobalt, ghostly hands gently reaching toward the center of a painting against a salmon-colored background with another cobalt shape in the upper-right corner. Bubbly white textures and black shapes are layered over the cobalt and salmon, along with a grid of white spirals.
Jun 25 to Sep 13, 2010

The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression highlights the creative partnerships between SOLO Impression Inc. founder Judith Solodkin and important contemporary women artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Maya Lin, Jean Shin, and Nancy Spero.

This selection from NMWA’s collection comprises prints made through creative partnerships at SOLO Impression Inc. Founder Judith Solodkin worked with established contemporary artists, including Ida Applebroog, Louise Bourgeois, Alice Neel, and Betye Saar. From its founding in New York City in 1975, SOLO Impression published and printed lithographs, woodcuts, and artists’ books.

Solodkin was the first woman to graduate as a master lithographer from the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an educational institution founded in 1960 in Los Angeles by artist June Wayne. Like Tamarind, SOLO encourages experimentation and intimate printing partnerships.

The Dorothy Series by June Wayne complement the prints from SOLO Impression. Created in a hyper-realist style using reprinted photographs, documents, and scrapbook memorabilia, Wayne created the set of lithographs to narrate poignantly the life of her mother, who raised her as a single parent, had a successful sales career, and staunchly campaigned for women’s rights.

A house on an orange background shows several windows. In each window, a person is standing. On the window on the left, a man is holding two telephone receivers and has a sad look on his face. In the three windows on the right side, three identical, muscular women are posing.

Ida Applebroog, Gulf + Western Plaza, 1987; Hand-colored lithograph on paper, 32 1/2 x 23 3/4 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Museum purchase: Members' Acquisition Fund; © Ida Applebroog

Exhibition Sponsors

The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression is organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts and is generously supported by the members of NMWA.

The Artist,

Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis first garnered art-world attention for her poured latex sculptures, which stood in marked contrast to the hard-edged sculpture of male-dominated Minimalism.
A light-skinned adult woman with short, grey hair. She gazes directly into the camera with a frank expression, her eyebrows slightly raised. On the wall next to her hang three round sculptures of grey, black and white. They are masses of coils and resemble rounded brains.

The Artist,

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois is considered one of the most inventive and influential sculptors of the 20th century for her use of unconventional materials and allusive psychological content.
Black-and-white photograph of an older woman with her short, dark hair brushed back. Sitting with her left hand raised, her deeply lined face looks off-camera, her eyes squinting slightly and her lips pursed. She wears a gold earring, gold wedding ring and a white shirt.

The Artist,

Petah Coyne

Petah Coyne evokes intensely personal associations in sculptures made of incredibly varied materials.
A black-and-white photograph of a light-skinned adult older woman seen from the chin up. She has a salt-and-pepper bob haircut and wears a dark turtleneck.

The Artist,

Lesley Dill

Lesley Dill, a painter, printmaker, sculptor, photographer, and performance artist with an abiding interest in language, typically works with natural materials.
Black-and-white studio portrait of a smiling light-skinned adult woman with medium-length blond hair. She wears round glasses and a black turtleneck sweater.