These works will be augmented by additional prints and objects loaned from the Holding Capital Group collection, which has been carefully assembled over the last 30 years and illuminates the significance of printmaking within the contemporary art context. On view through March 1, “Beyond the Limited Life of Painting: Prints and Multiples from the Holding Capital Group” includes works by Ellsworth Kelly, Jane Hammond, Sol LeWitt, Elizabeth Murray, Isamu Noguchi, Kiki Smith, and Andy Warhol, among numerous others.
The exhibition examines more than 50 years of printmaking, tracing its historic importance to public debate in the 1930s and 1940s to its emergence as a valued artistic medium in the Pop Art Movement of the 1950s and 1960s and through to its role in today’s creative production. “Beyond the Limited Life of Painting” focuses in particular on the generation of artists in the postwar period, who rejected Abstract Expressionism and actively returned to representation. With the resurgence of the figure and a newfound interest among artists in “found” imagery, printmaking acquired a new critical utility. Many artists came to believe that traditional art forms such as painting could be made more meaningful through the reproduction and circulation of powerful images to an ever-growing audience, leveraging the medium as a fresh way to communicate with the public.
“The Holding Capital Group collection features an exceptional selection of prints from across the last several decades, showcasing the diversity of artists engaged with the medium. PAMM’s exhibition of these works offers an opportunity to shed further light on the development of printmaking and its position in the fine art lexicon,” said Thom Collins, PAMM’s director. “The principals at Holding Capital Group have generously gifted several important works to PAMM’s permanent collection—extending the depth and scope of our 20th-and 21st-century holdings—and have loaned an additional selection to help make this exhibition possible. We are grateful for their support and vision and look forward to sharing these works with our many audiences.”
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