Orange Coast College Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion presents:
Impact – the Big Print
Curated by Donna Westerman

Images by Roger Herman, June Wayne and Sarah Brayer
Orange Coast College Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion
2701 Fairview Road
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Director: Andrea Harris 714-423-5102,
occartspavilion.blogspot.com
Parking lot D9 off Merrimac Way
September 9 – October 23, 2009
Opening Receptions: September 9, 5:00-8:00 p.m. and
September 12, 5:00-9:00 p.m.
Artists Lecture: September 17th, 6.00-7:00 p.m.
Featured artists: Sarah Brayer, Michele Burgess, Richard Estes, Helen Frankenthaler, Joe Goode, Pascal Giraudon,
Dirk Hagner, Roger Herman, Roy Lichtenstein, Patrick Merrill, Mimmo Paladino, Endi Poskovic, Robert Rauschenberg, Allen Ruppersberg, Sheryl Seltzer, Rufino Tamayo, June Wayne and Safet Zec
A collaborative publication is being produced through OCC Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion and Los Angeles Printmaking Society.
Selection from the curator’s statement:
Why print large? Other than the fact that hugeness has recently been greatly popular, overcoming its technical difficulties is part of the love of problem solving inherent in the personalities of many printmakers, who are mostly stubborn, curious, adaptable, inventive, and ambitious die-hards.
Shown in the exhibition and publication are a variety of printing techniques and approaches. Collaborative pieces, where the artist works alongside a master printer, include the works by June Wayne, Joe Goode, Roger Herman, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Allen Ruppersberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Mimmo Paladino, and Rufino Tamayo. These last three works are on loan from Mixografia, where master printers have the additional challenge of creating these prints from cast molds using paper pulp, resulting in three-dimensional sculptural prints. The large Tamayo print was created on a litho stone 61” x 97½”, which presented additional problems. Being extremely heavy, it had to be backed with steel and suspended vertically from a crane for the artist to draw on it. Other presses and printers who have worked with the artists in this exhibition include Gemini G.E.L., Cirrus, Ed Hamilton, and Garner and Richard Tullis. Artists who function as their own master printers include Pascal Giraudon, Endi Poskovic, Sarah Brayer, Patrick Merrill, Roger Herman (“Tank”), Michele Burgess, Safet Zec, Dirk Hagner, and Sheryl Seltzer. Perseverance is their hallmark. Unpredictability was inherent in my quest as a curator as well as in the nature of the printing processes themselves.
The Los Angeles Printmaking Society has collaborated with Orange Coast College in including their journal Newsprint as a part of this exhibition catalog. As the exhibition took shape, it began to make sense to meld the two publications as one. And so, included with the images are essays by and interviews with some of the participants. I hope that this combination imparts to the viewer an enriched understanding of the impetus behind many of these pieces. Many thanks to LAPS for their support in this unique presentation.
To the artists who have contributed their writings and their exceptional artwork and to the collectors and presses who have been so generous in loaning their works, I extend my deepest gratitude.
Donna Westerman
Curator, Impact: The Big Print
Editor, Newsprint
Impact – the Big Print
Curated by Donna Westerman

Images by Roger Herman, June Wayne and Sarah Brayer
Orange Coast College Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion
2701 Fairview Road
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Director: Andrea Harris 714-423-5102,
occartspavilion.blogspot.com
Parking lot D9 off Merrimac Way
September 9 – October 23, 2009
Opening Receptions: September 9, 5:00-8:00 p.m. and
September 12, 5:00-9:00 p.m.
Artists Lecture: September 17th, 6.00-7:00 p.m.
Featured artists: Sarah Brayer, Michele Burgess, Richard Estes, Helen Frankenthaler, Joe Goode, Pascal Giraudon,
Dirk Hagner, Roger Herman, Roy Lichtenstein, Patrick Merrill, Mimmo Paladino, Endi Poskovic, Robert Rauschenberg, Allen Ruppersberg, Sheryl Seltzer, Rufino Tamayo, June Wayne and Safet Zec
A collaborative publication is being produced through OCC Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion and Los Angeles Printmaking Society.
Selection from the curator’s statement:
Why print large? Other than the fact that hugeness has recently been greatly popular, overcoming its technical difficulties is part of the love of problem solving inherent in the personalities of many printmakers, who are mostly stubborn, curious, adaptable, inventive, and ambitious die-hards.
Shown in the exhibition and publication are a variety of printing techniques and approaches. Collaborative pieces, where the artist works alongside a master printer, include the works by June Wayne, Joe Goode, Roger Herman, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Allen Ruppersberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Mimmo Paladino, and Rufino Tamayo. These last three works are on loan from Mixografia, where master printers have the additional challenge of creating these prints from cast molds using paper pulp, resulting in three-dimensional sculptural prints. The large Tamayo print was created on a litho stone 61” x 97½”, which presented additional problems. Being extremely heavy, it had to be backed with steel and suspended vertically from a crane for the artist to draw on it. Other presses and printers who have worked with the artists in this exhibition include Gemini G.E.L., Cirrus, Ed Hamilton, and Garner and Richard Tullis. Artists who function as their own master printers include Pascal Giraudon, Endi Poskovic, Sarah Brayer, Patrick Merrill, Roger Herman (“Tank”), Michele Burgess, Safet Zec, Dirk Hagner, and Sheryl Seltzer. Perseverance is their hallmark. Unpredictability was inherent in my quest as a curator as well as in the nature of the printing processes themselves.
The Los Angeles Printmaking Society has collaborated with Orange Coast College in including their journal Newsprint as a part of this exhibition catalog. As the exhibition took shape, it began to make sense to meld the two publications as one. And so, included with the images are essays by and interviews with some of the participants. I hope that this combination imparts to the viewer an enriched understanding of the impetus behind many of these pieces. Many thanks to LAPS for their support in this unique presentation.
To the artists who have contributed their writings and their exceptional artwork and to the collectors and presses who have been so generous in loaning their works, I extend my deepest gratitude.
Donna Westerman
Curator, Impact: The Big Print
Editor, Newsprint
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