Catharine Clark Gallery and Mullowney Printing began their collaboration with the release of Sandow Birk's "Ten Leading Causes of Death in America" (2004), a suite of chine-collé, direct gravure etchings. In 2018, Mullowney Printing and Catharine Clark Gallery entered a formal partnership, the latter of which serves as the distributor for projects through the press with gallery and non-represented artists, including Alison Saar, Masami Teraoka, and Sandow Birk. In 2020, the gallery launched a new series of print projects through its BOXBLUR initiative, including "Afterimages," an acclaimed and institutionally collected suite of photogravures by Stephanie Syjuco.
After becoming a Master Printer at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, Paul Mullowney founded and managed studios in Ouda, Japan and on Maui, Hawaii. Catharine Clark studied the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania prior to founding Catharine Clark Gallery, representing work across medium with an emphasis on print making and education around original multiples.
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Artwork
Afterimages (Deflection of Vision)
Stephanie Syjuco, 2021
Photogravure printed on gampi mounted on Somerset black 280 gram cotton rag;
re-edited photograph of an ethnological display of Filipinos from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair
Image: 20" x 16"; Sheet: 24" x 18"
Crumpled/folded gampi is proud by 1/8” from back mounted layer
Edition of 20 plus 8 proofs
$4500
Printed by Paul Mullowney and Harry Schneider, Co-published by BOXBLUR, Catharine Clark Gallery, and Mullowney Printing, San Francisco, CA and Portland
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Afterimages (Interference of Vision)
Stephanie Syjuco, 2021
Photogravure printed on gampi mounted on Somerset black 280 gram cotton rag;
Re-edited photograph of an ethnological display of Filipinos from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair
Image: 16" x 20" ; Sheet: 18" x 24"
Crumpled/folded gampi is proud by 1/8” from back mounted layer
Edition of 20 plus 8 proofs
$4500
Printed by Paul Mullowney and Harry Schneider, Co-published by BOXBLUR, Catharine Clark Gallery, and Mullowney Printing, San Francisco, CA and Portland
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Afterimages (Obstruction of Vision)
Stephanie Syjuco, 2021
Photogravure printed on gampi mounted on Somerset black 280 gram cotton rag;
Re-edited photograph of an ethnological display of Filipinos from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair
Image: 16" x 20" ; Sheet: 18" x 24"
Crumpled/folded gampi is proud by 1/8” from back mounted layer
Edition of 20 plus 8 proofs
$4500
Printed by Paul Mullowney and Harry Schneider, Co-published by BOXBLUR, Catharine Clark Gallery, and Mullowney Printing, San Francisco, CA and Portland
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Afterimages (Deflection of Vision)
Stephanie Syjuco, 2021
Photogravure printed on gampi mounted on Somerset black 280 gram cotton rag;
re-edited photograph of an ethnological display of Filipinos from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair
Image: 20" x 16"; Sheet: 24" x 18"
Crumpled/folded gampi is proud by 1/8” from back mounted layer
Edition of 20 plus 8 proofs
$4500
Printed by Paul Mullowney and Harry Schneider, Co-published by BOXBLUR, Catharine Clark Gallery, and Mullowney Printing, San Francisco, CA and Portland
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Stephanie Syjuco’s series Afterimages expands on the artist’s research into the problematic construction of American history and concurrent histories of photography that inform deeply biased structures foregrounding whiteness as a normative subject. Borrowing from the visual language of photography, anthropology, and museum archives, Syjuco’s work examines how these disciplines go hand-in-hand with producing and proliferating images and documents of exclusion, generating a skewed collection that mirrors an American imagination built on ethnographic record and cultural Othering.
White Out: A Monumental Arch to American History in the series “Imaginary Monuments”
Sandown Birk, 2021
Direct gravure etching on twenty-four copper plates printed on sheets of gampi paper, joined and backed with sekishu kozo paper
Edition of 10 plus 3 proofs
Signed and numbered on the recto in pencil
Printed by Paul Mullowney and Harry Schneider, assisted by Alejandra Arias Sevilla
Co-published by Mullowney Printing, Portland and San Francisco, and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco.
Pre-publication price: $18,000 unframed
After publication: $25,000 unframed
Publication Date: January 2022
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Night Watch (Norris)
Shimon Attie, 2021
Copper plate photogravure on gampi backed with kozo
18 ¼" x 29 ¼"
Edition of 15 plus 6 artist proofs
Signed and numbered on the recto in pencil
$1800
Printed by Paul Mullowney, Co-published by BOXBLUR, San Francisco and Mullowney Printing, Portland, OR
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The Queen of the 88s from “Copacetic”
Alison Saar, 2021
Works from “Copacetic” are multi-block linocuts on handmade Japanese Hamada kozo paper, inked by hand and editioned on Mullowney Printing's Dufa Manual Offset Lithography Press
19.5" x 18"
Edition of 20, plus 5 artist proofs
Signed and numbered on the recto in pencil
$2400
Published by Mullowney Printing, San Francisco
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The Trotters from “Copacetic”
Alison Saar, 2021
Works from “Copacetic” are multi-block linocuts on handmade Japanese Hamada kozo paper, inked by hand and editioned on Mullowney Printing's Dufa Manual Offset Lithography Press
19.5" x 18"
Edition of 20, plus 5 artist proofs
Signed and numbered on the recto in pencil
$2400
Published by Mullowney Printing, San Francisco
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Geisha and Madonna
Masami Teraoka, 2020
Three plate, three color direct gravure etching on handmade Hamada Kozo printed chine collé backed with Somerset satin white 300 gram paper, trimmed bleed
11 3/4" x 17"
Edition of 35 plus 10 proofs
Signed and numbered on the verso in pencil
$3800
Printed by Erin McAdams, Wendy Liu, and Harry Schneider, Co-published by Catharine Clark Gallery and Mullowney Printing
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