Opening Friday
In its latest international collaboration, Highpoint will showcase work by 30 artists affiliated with the Belfast Print Workshop, a facility in the Cathedral Quarter heart of Northern Ireland's once-troubled capital. Now elegantly revitalized, Belfast is home to a lively artist community whose print practitioners congregate at the 10-year-old BPW, in a former warehouse that includes a gallery. Members collaborate with poets and other artists, and turn out realistic to abstract work in myriad techniques: etching, screen printing, collograph, photo intaglio, lithography, monoprints, linocuts, aquatint and giclee, a controversial contemporary medium that purists dismiss as photographic reproduction rather than true hand-printing. Expect samples across the board.
