PULLING PRINTS
PULLING PRINTS
Kai Lin Art’s First Annual Juried Printmaking Exhibition
For ten years, Kai Lin Art has celebrated printmaking through group and curated exhibitions that show how much the medium can do. PULLING PRINTS builds on that history as the gallery’s first open call for a juried printmaking show. Juried by Todd Anderson, the inaugural exhibition brings together 27 contemporary artists from across the Southeast and beyond.
The name comes from the moment a print is pulled from the matrix, when the paper lifts away from the plate, block, stone, or screen and the image is revealed. That moment is the heart of the medium, and this show gathers the many ways artists reach it. Relief artists carve and cut into wood and linoleum. Intaglio printmakers etch, engrave, and incise metal plates to hold ink in fine lines and deep tones. Lithographers draw on stone or plate, while screenprinters build layered color through the mesh. Monotype artists embrace the one-of-a-kind impression. Alongside these traditional processes, the exhibition includes experimental work that stretches what a print can be, through mixed media, unconventional surfaces, and new ideas about editions and repetition.
Established and emerging artists hang together, so visitors can see how printmaking is practiced today, in technique and in concept. Whether rooted in craft tradition or pushing against it, each work shows the patience, precision, and invention the medium demands.
PULLING PRINTS also marks a new chapter for Kai Lin Art. After 18 years in Atlanta, the gallery is expanding with Kai Lin Art Annex in West Midtown, a larger space for ambitious exhibitions, juried shows, and community gatherings. This is the first juried exhibition to launch there.
Opening Reception
Friday, October 30, 7 - 10 pm
Kai Lin Art Annex, West Midtown, Atlanta
Artist Mixer
Saturday, December 5, 4 - 6 pm
Kai Lin Art Annex
Featured artists: Allison Johnson, Andrew DeCaen, Cameron Bailey, Heather Huston, Brandon Williams, Juan Correa, Philip Carpenter, Tiana Honda, Taro Takizawa, Serena Perrone, Jon Swindler, Stephanie Kolpy, Chadwick Tolley, Neil Mattern, Michelle Martin, Heather Muise, Sarah Smelser, Bryan Baker, Akemi Ohira, Matthew Egan, Callie Farmer, Heather Conyers, Anthony TungNing Huang, Andrew Catanese, Joshua Winkler, Melissa Harshman, and Emily Legleitner.