Currently On View

Imprinted: Printmaking with Pulp

ON VIEW: APRIL 8 – MAY 29, 2026
Jordan Schnitzer Gallery at Dieu Donné
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Building 3, Suite 602

Noel W Anderson, John Beech, Robert Blackburn, Ernesto Caivano, Katharine L. DeLamater, Lesley Dill, J. Fiber, Tatiana Ginsberg, April Gornik, Matthew Kirk, Alison Knowles, Suzanne McClelland, Tammy Nguyen, Howardena Pindell, Richard M Polsky, Simonette Quamina, Juan Sanchez, Richard Tuttle, Jason Urban & Leslie Mutchler, Chuck Webster, and Paul Wong

Dieu Donne is pleased to present Imprinted, an exhibition exploring the application of printmaking techniques in hand papermaking. Coinciding with the presentation of the IFPDA Print Fair and the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, this exhibition demonstrates the longstanding exchange between the two methods. Entirely drawn from Dieu Donné’s extensive collections archive, the exhibition includes examples of etching, solvent transfers, embossing, risograph, letterpress, and screenprinting. Tammy Nguyen’s work alone includes photogravure, silkscreen, chine collé, rubber stamping, and letterpress. 

Screenprinting, the most frequently featured process here, involves pushing diluted pulp “paint” through silkscreens onto a wet base sheet. The process can achieve graphic clarity at a large scale, as in Tatiana Ginsberg’s work, but it is also used by Noel W Anderson and Katharine L. DeLamater to distort imagery. Matthew Kirk and John Beech use embossing to create abstract sculptural impressions, while legendary printmaker Robert Blackburn combined etching with stenciled paper pulp to produce a grayscale composition of stacked and swirling forms. Several artists, including Lesley Dill, Alison Knowles, and Suzanne McClelland, employed various printmaking techniques to incorporate language into their work. Dieu Donné’s Founding Artistic Director, Paul Wong, augmented his handmade paper and laminate cast sculptures with diagrammatic illustrations that draw on his Chinese heritage.

At Dieu Donné, paper is more than just a substrate for other mediums. This presentation demonstrates how artists working in our studio have embedded printmaking into the paper itself.

Past Exhibitions

About the Jordan Schnitzer Gallery

Dedicated to exhibiting works on paper by emerging and established artists, the Jordan Schnitzer Gallery will host exhibitions, lectures, and public programming related to papermaking inside Dieu Donné’s home at the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Jordan Schnitzer states, “I am honored to have the gallery at Dieu Donné named for me, as someone who loves and promotes artists who make work on paper to further their artistic vision. Dieu Donné is the national leader in helping artists to create and use paper in their artmaking process. For over 500 years, art makers have made prints because of the magic created when ink, paint, and paper come together. I look forward to Dieu Donné’s many more decades of success.”
 
Susan Gosin, Founder and Co-Chair of Dieu Donné, remarks, “Jordan’s continued dedication to Dieu Donné exemplifies our legacy as one of New York City’s most significant cultural organizations. The Jordan Schnitzer Gallery will inspire others to connect with our 40+ year history and ensure that our gallery and studios remain a vital home for many more generations of artists working in handmade paper.”
 
Jordan Schnitzer is an influential collector of contemporary prints and multiples. Today, Jordan Schnitzer and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation collections exceed 13,000 works and include many of today’s most important contemporary artists. Jordan Schnitzer is president of Harsch Investment Properties, a privately owned real estate investment company based in Portland, Oregon, which owns and manages office, multi-tenant industrial, multi-family, and retail properties in six western states.