On view in-person and online January 20–March 26, 2022
Closing Reception: Thursday, March 24
Visit www.ipcny.org/unfinished

International Print Center New York (IPCNY) is pleased to announce unfinished: New Prints 2022/Winter juried by Queer.Archive.Work (QAW). For this presentation of IPCNY’s open call exhibition program, the theme “unfinished” was conceived of by QAW and announced alongside the open call, soliciting works that stepped away from traditions of polish and perfection and instead expressed incompleteness, illegibility, risk, and queerness, among other themes. The resulting exhibition presents 49 works by 36 artists from the US and abroad. 

“Within the loose theme of unfinished, we push up against capitalism’s relentless drive towards market-based success by making way for other kinds of stories,” said Queer.Archive.Work founder Paul Soulellis. “unfinished includes actual works-in-progress, abandoned work, failed work, and work that is simply unfinished due to the myriad aspects and conditions artists experience while living and working during crisis—the radical turbulence of racial injustice, police brutality, class inequity, global pandemic, and climate emergency.” 

unfinished is the latest presentation of IPCNY’s long-standing New Prints Program, a biannual open call that supports artists from a wide range of backgrounds and reflects print-based artistic production of the last twelve months. QAW’s selection includes a variety of material and conceptual uses of print, ranging from works made with traditional techniques such as intaglio and lithography, to interdisciplinary sculptural works and installations, to risograph zines. Together, they explore the possibilities of what QAW calls “the non-linear, uncertain space of the unfinished” and demonstrate a collective rethinking of labor, time, marketability, and artistic success. 

In conjunction with the exhibition, IPCNY will host public programming that includes a guided, in-person walkthrough, two online moderated artist conversations, and an online discussion with QAW. Online talks are presented on Zoom with captioning. All programs are free and open to the public, and registration is required. Check ipcny.org/public-programs for more information. 

ARTISTS
s alvarez, Maggy Aston, C. Javier Barrera, Julia Epifania Basnage, Shawn Bitters, Vin Caponigro, Sarrah El-Bushra, Angela Davis Fegan, Shannon Finnegan, Jessica Gasc, Sheila Goloborotko, Jesús González, Imran Faizyab Jatoi, Katie Kaplan, Anukriti Kaushik, Lujiang Li, Christina Martin, Blerta Meraj, Benjamin Merritt, Michael G. Miller, Jr., cairo mo, Erin Moore, Neil Daigle Orians, Mariana Ramos Ortiz, Laimah Osman, Francisco Javier Ramirez, Cynthia Resendiz, Breanna Robinson, Terry Schupbach-Gordon, Alick Shiu, Corrine Slade, Doan Truong, Yu Wei, Ruvan Wijesooriya, dan keith williams, and Erin Wohletz.

ABOUT THE JURY
Queer.Archive.Work, Inc. (QAW) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) reading room, publishing studio, and community space serving Providence, RI and beyond. QAW was incorporated in the State of Rhode Island on March 2, 2020 to support artists and writers with free, open access to space and resources for experimental publishing, with a special focus on queer practices. QAW includes a non-circulating library of books, zines, tools, objects, and downloadable files, a risograph printer, shared studio space (with Binch Press), and digital meeting spaces. Programming includes studio residencies, open studios, workshops, publishing, and online queer hangouts. QAW strives to be accountable, to center marginalized voices through intersectional work, and to cultivate anti-racist, safe platforms for independent, queer publishing.