Jillian Ross Print
Saskatoon, Canada
For this first edition of the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, Jillian Ross Print will be showcasing prints made with our collaborative partners: William Kentridge, Mikhael Subotzky, Wally Dion, Cinthia Sifa Mulanga, and Puleng Mongale.
Jillian Ross Print (JRP) was established in 2021 in Saskatoon, Canada and is a collaborative print studio and print publisher working with South African and Canadian artists to conceptualize, develop, and print contemporary fine art editions.
Canadian-born Jillian Ross is a collaborative master printer who specializes in intaglio and has worked with over 100 artists in her 20-year career. Ross was the master printer and studio manager at David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa from 2005 - 2020. JRP works in collaboration with artists, print teams, museums, galleries, and educational institutions to develop exhibitions, workshops, educational talks, and print projects. Ross’s collaborative prints can be found in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and The Africa Centre.
Ross's most well-known collaboration is with William Kentridge. Over the last 18 years they have produced more than 190 prints together.
For more information, please contact
Jillian Ross Print
Saskatoon, Canada
Brendan Copestake
+1 306 450 8034
http://www.jillianrossprint.com
Instagram @jillianrossprint_
William Kentridge (b.1955, South Africa) is internationally acclaimed for his artworks and his theater and opera productions. His method combines drawing and erasing, tearing, gestural painting, collage, writing, film, performance, music, theater, with collaborative practices in print, sculpture and tapestry to create works of art that are grounded in politics, science, literature, and history and yet maintains a space for contradiction and uncertainty.
His largest UK survey to date was held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2022.
Kentridge’s work is held in major art collections including MoMA, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi; and Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town.
The works presented here are explorations in photogravure and photopolymer printmaking made from an inter-continental working process that includes Steven Dixon, a photogravure expert, from the University of Alberta and printers from David Krut Workshop. They are from the most recent collaborations Studio Life Gravures and The Great Yes, The Great No.
https://www.jillianrossprint.com/gravures
https://www.jillianrossprint.com/kentridge-thegreatyes
Mikhael Subotzky’s works are the results of his fractured attempts to place himself in relation to the social, historical, and political narratives that surround him. As an artist working in film, video installation, and photography, as well as more recently in collage and painting, Subotzky engages critically with contemporary politics of representation. His most recent exhibition, Home Building Ideas for South Africa (or A Cape Town Landscape) (Goodman Gallery Cape Town, 2024), concerned the different forms of containment and surveillance humans have embedded within the landscape and pulled together the history of the city through its colonial prisons, slave labour camps, and forts as well as its natural terrain.
His works are held in major public institutions and private collections including MoMA, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Guggenheim, New York; and IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
The works presented here are explorations of photographic printmaking techniques including photopolymer platemaking as well as digital printing. They are part of an ongoing project rooted in T.S. Eliot's The Four Quartets and were created during residencies at David Krut Workshop and at Jillian Ross Print, with collaborative engagement from master printers Phil Sanders and Jillian Ross.
Wally Dion is a visual artist living and working in Binghamton, New York. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Dion is a member of Yellow Quill First Nation (Salteaux). He holds a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design.
Throughout much of his career, Dion’s work has contributed to a broad conversation in the art world about identity and power and can be interpreted as part of a much larger pan-American struggle by Indigenous peoples to be recognized—culturally, economically, and politically—by settler societies.
Solo exhibitions of Dion’s work have been presented at the College Art Galleries, University of Saskatchewan; Wanuskewin Gallery; MacKenzie Art Gallery; Urban Shaman Gallery; Ottawa Art Gallery; and Boise Art Museum.
His work is housed in collections across Canada including Remai Modern; University of Alberta Museum Art Collection; Canadian Museum of Civilization; MacKenzie Art Gallery; Foreign Affairs & International Trade Canada and Portland Art Museum; Autry Museum of the American West.
Prints from the recent collaboration with Wally Dion’s from his Braids series will be presented. Wally Dion will be in attendance during the art fair.
Top Image: Jillian Ross working on William Kentridge’s print series from The Great Yes, The Great No.
Live Editions: Jillian Ross Print at Remai Modern, 2024.
This Image: Wally Dion, mixed media ‘paper and silk quilt’ made from photopolymer prints on gampi(20gsm), reinforced with konnyaku, collaged and sewn together with silk and cotton fabric.
