As a printmaker, I’m always interested in seeing other artists’ prints and in promoting printmaking. I think it’s a wonderful, though still under-utilized, service when museums and galleries offer good online exhibitions for those of us unable to attend the real thing.

Today via Art Daily, I learned that Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington, Indiana, USA presents Pressure Points, an exhibition featuring fifty-four contemporary prints from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation. The exhibition surveys major trends in contemporary printmaking and includes new works all produced within the last six years by twenty-three nationally and internationally recognized artists, such as Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, Kiki Smith, and Kara Walker. A wide range of contemporary issues, or pressure points, are explored in the exhibition, including memory, identity, racial stereotypes, consumer culture, and AIDS.

So here’s the best news: some of the artists’ works can be seen on the museum’s site via a Flash interactive module. My personal favourites are Judy Pfaff’s woodcut and photogravure triptych, Judy Hill’s Watermelon Bride, and the well-known Chuck Close portrait, and very intriguing are Robert Longo’s lithographs and John Buck’s woodcuts. Enjoy!