Summer Choices: A Group Exhibition

June 6 - July 18, 2017
Wednesday, July 12, 6-8

Tomma Abts, Mamma Andersson, Anne Appleby, Robert Bechtle, Christopher Brown, Chris Burden, Richard Diebenkorn, Al Held, Sol LeWitt, Tom Marioni, Susan Middleton, Jockum Nordström, Chris Ofili, Nathan Oliveira, Laura Owens, Markus Raetz, Ed Ruscha, Laurie Reid, Wilson Shieh, Shahzia Sikander, Pat Steir, Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Tuttle, William T. Wiley, and Fred Wilson

Crown Point Press announces its annual group exhibition Summer Choices, which features a diverse selection of prints available to Seasons Club members this year. A long-standing program at the press, Seasons Club offers special benefits to members beginning or expanding their art collections (view details here). The exhibition presents twenty-five artists who have made etchings at Crown Point, a leader in the medium for over fifty years. The prints on display will rotate midway through the summer to highlight an additional selection available at half price to members.

Press Release

Laura Owens, Untitled (LO273), 2004
Spit bite aquatint with soft ground etching and drypoint printed in blue.
16 x 11½"; 22½ x 17½". 40.
Crown Point Press and Dena Schuckit.
$3,000    InquireInquire
Wilson Shieh, Baby, 2005
Color direct gravure with aquatint and spit bite aquatint printed on gampi paper chine collé.
15½ x 16"; 22½ x 22". 20.
Crown Point Press and Catherine Brooks.
$2,500    InquireInquire
Shahzia Sikander, Mirror Plane, 2012
Color direct gravure.
27 x 21¼"; 36 x 29½". 35.
Crown Point Press and Ianne Kjorlie.
$5,000    Unavailable
Susan Middleton, Day Octopus, 2008
Color photogravure.
15½ x 23"; 27 x 33". 30.
Crown Point Press and Asa Muir-Harmony.
$3,000    InquireInquire
Nathan Oliveira, Dog Man, 1994
Color drypoint with soap ground and spit bite aquatints and aquatint.
29½ x 23½"; 40¼ x 32½". 35.
Crown Point Press and Daria Sywulak.
$7,000    InquireInquire
Chris Burden, Arch Bridges, 2000
Color photogravure with spit bite aquatint and aquatint.
29¾ x 37¼"; 37½ x 44½". 25.
Crown Point Press and Dena Schuckit.
$9,000    InquireInquire
William T. Wiley, Charmin Billy, 2006
Color photogravure with burnishing, soft ground etching and spit bite aquatint.
32½ x 26"; 41½ x 34". 10.
Crown Point Press and Catherine Brooks.
$6,500    InquireInquire
Markus Raetz, Binocular View, 2001
Photogravure printed in color.
20 x 25"; 22½ x 27¼". 60.
Crown Point Press and Case Hudson.
$5,000    InquireInquire
Richard Diebenkorn, Flotsam, 1991
Aquatint reversal with scraping, burnishing and drypoint.
24 x 18"; 34 x 26½". 85.
Crown Point Press and Renée Bott.
$6,500    InquireInquire
Fred Wilson, Dawn, 2004
Spit bite aquatint with gampi paper chine collé.
20 x 24"; 30½ x 34". 15.
Crown Point Press and Case Hudson.
$5,500    InquireInquire
Anne Appleby, Quaking Aspen, 2012
Color aquatint with burnishing.
18 x 18"; 30¼ x 29¼". 20.
Crown Point Press and Emily York.
$4,000    InquireInquire
Tom Marioni, Drawing A Line, 2012
Drypoint with plate tarnish printed in sepia and black.
47½ x 10"; 54¼ x 16¼". 20.
Crown Point Press and Ianne Kjorlie.
$5,000    InquireInquire
Laurie Reid, X-1, 2000
Color spit bite aquatint.
5 x 40"; 14 x 51". 20.
Crown Point Press and Rachel Fuller.
$3,000    InquireInquire
Tomma Abts, Untitled (5 spots), 2009
Color sugar lift and spit bite aquatints with hard ground and flat bite etching.
18 x 12⅞; 23⅛ x 17⅝. 20.
Crown Point Press and Ianne Kjorlie.
$4,500    InquireInquire
Richard Tuttle, Mandevilla 3, 1998
Color aquatint.
19¾ x 17¾"; 24 x 22". 40.
Crown Point Press and Dena Schuckit.
$6,000    InquireInquire
Al Held, Fly Away, 1992
Color spit bite aquatint.
20¾ x 30"; 31¾ x 39½". 50.
Crown Point Press and Daria Sywulak.
$7,000    InquireInquire
Sol LeWitt, Horizontal Bands (More or Less) Red/Green, 2002
Color sugar lift aquatint with aquatint.
30 x 30"; 38 x 38". 20.
Crown Point Press and Case Hudson.
$8,000    InquireInquire
Pat Steir, Mountain in Rain, 2012
Color direct gravure printed on gampi paper chine collé.
21¼ x 30½"; 31 x 39". 20.
Crown Point Press and Emily York.
$5,500 fair market value    Proof AvailableProof Available
Chris Ofili, Last Night. New Day, 2008
Color spit bite and sugar lift aquatints with hard ground etching and drypoint.
45 x 20"; 54 x 28". 30.
Crown Point Press and Catherine Brooks.
$7,000    InquireInquire
Christopher Brown, Between the Eyes, 1995
Photogravure with soft ground etching and aquatint printed in yellow.
9 x 13½"; 16 x 20". 45.
Crown Point Press and Daria Sywulak.
$1,500    InquireInquire
Robert Bechtle, Covered Car–Missouri Street, 2002
Color soft ground etching with aquatint.
8 x 16"; 16 x 23". 40.
Crown Point Press and Case Hudson.
$4,000    InquireInquire
Ed Ruscha, Desert Gravure, 2006
Photogravure.
15½ x 19¾"; 21¼ x 24¾". 30.
Crown Point Press and Dena Schuckit.
$9,500    InquireInquire
Mamma Andersson/Jockum Nordström, Mamma Andersson/Jockum Nordström: Lou, 2010
Color spit bite and sugar lift aquatints with aquatint and soft ground etching.
15½ x 22"; 21½ x 28½". 30.
Crown Point Press and Emily York.
$3,500 fair market value    Unavailable
Wayne Thiebaud, Land Cloud, 2011
Hard ground etching with drypoint.
8 x 6½"; 12¾ x 10½". 15.
Crown Point Press and Emily York.
$5,500    InquireInquire
Wayne Thiebaud, Heart Ridge, 2011
Hard ground etching with drypoint.
12 x 9"; 16¾ x 13". 25.
Crown Point Press and Emily York.
$8,500    InquireInquire