The Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to announce SPECIAL EDITIONS ’09, on view at the Printshop from June 17th – July 4th, 2009. This presentation will feature new works on paper created by three recipients of the Printshop’s Special Editions Residencies: Fawad Khan, Carlos Motta, and Shinique Smith. The Special Editions Residency Program provides emerging artists with the opportunity to create an important new body of work in collaboration with master printers, fully sponsored by the Printshop. Fawad Khan’s autobiographical series of etchings, Carlos Motta’s political screenprint portfolio, and Shinique Smith’s mixed media collages are the first prints created by all three artists, and represent new directions in their own work as well as pushing the boundaries of contemporary printmaking.

FAWAD KHAN (b. Tripoli, Libya, 1978, lives in New York) received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2003. Through colorful murals, installations, and intricate drawings that on first glance look playful and whimsical, Khan’s work illuminates a dark and complex political struggle with violence and identity that takes place through, on, and in public vehicles.

CARLOS MOTTA (b. Bogotá, Colombia, 1978, lives in New York) completed his MFA at Bard College in 2003 and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program (2005-2006). Working primarily in photography and video installation, he uses strategies from documentary and sociology to engage with specific political events in an attempt to observe their effects and suggest alternative ways to write and read these histories.

SHINIQUE SMITH (b. Baltimore, Maryland, 1971, lives in New York) received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1998, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2003. Her practice spans a range of media, from sculpture, collage, and video to painting and drawing. Smith creates colorful works that tread the lines between accumulation and loss, containment and scatter, legibility and scribble.



The Lower East Side Printshop's programs have been supported in part by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Con Edison Company of New York, Ford Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, International Fine Print Dealers Association, The Jerome Foundation, Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Community Trust, PECO Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs. 

This program is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Special thanks to our Patrons:
Monica Belag Forman, Fiona Benenson, Lloyd and Laura Blankfein, Alla Broeksmit,
Sonia and Richard Carty, Elizabeth Cohen, Norman Cox, Iris Dankner, Joan Davidson, Ned and Jane Dresner Sadaka, Sean Elwood and Yvonne Puffer, Susan and Ed Falk, Courtney Finch Taylor, Steve and Cheri Friedman, Susan and Richard A. Friedman, Ronald and Frayda Feldman, Jeffrey Gural, Newmark Knight Frank, Jamie Gordon and Brad Lindenbaum, Francis Greenburger, Allen Hansen, Stephen Hays and Valerie Hughes, Michael Hoehn, John B. Koegel, Esq., Mark and Janet Landau, Stacey and Curtis Lane, Jill and Thomas Marino, Joanna Migdal, Jane and John Nixon, Judy and Don Opatrny, Lisa Pevaroff and Gary Cohn, Ned and Jane Sadaka, Mary and David Solomon, Robert and Donna Shafir, Thomas W. Smith, Laurie Thomson and Andy Chisholm, Cristin Tierney, John Vogelstein, Younghee Kim Wait, Shawn Warren Crowley, Lisa and Lance West, and Michael Wolfensohn.


We thank our volunteers, friends, members, and patrons for their dedication, support, and generosity.