Over the past few years, many young printmakers and emerging artists have missed the opportunity to share their work in person due to delays, postponements and cancellations related to the pandemic. Exhibitions have been pushed online and we have begun primarily consuming our print media digitally. This unexpected isolation has led to us to reinvent ourselves, our relationships, and our ways of seeing and making. In an effort to reclaim the gallery as physical space and the print as physical object, we shift our focus from the digital landscape back to our world in the round.

Second State Press invites artists of all backgrounds (painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, etc.) to submit work to our upcoming open call exhibition entitled, New Adjusted and Transformed.

They are seeking submissions that push toward the perception of just what a print can be and support the idea that print can be image or object. Artists utilizing multiple matrices, experimental processes, seeking to bridge the gap between fine art and mass media and the rejection/manipulation/expansion on the idea of the multiple are encouraged to apply.

Learn more and apply here.