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New video on our YouTube channel

A new video documents Manneken Press's 2023 project with John Yau and Richard Hull. The pair collaborated on a series of monotypes in a format based on "wanted" posters of the old Wild West. Richard Hull's current exhibition, "After All", can be seen in Chicago at Western Exhibitions, June 12 - August 15 2026. Gallery one features new paintings, and a 50-year print retrospective is in gallery 2....

New video on our YouTube channel - Video A new video on Manneken Press's YouTube channel documents a 2023 monotype collaboration with John Yau and Richard Hull.

At the IFPDA Print Fair Manneken Press will spotlight a range of approaches to photogravure. This historical technique that combines photography and printmaking has been adopted by Manneken Press artists in diverse, inventive ways. Philip Van Keuren has pursued photography as a quiet, contemplative practice—guided by everyday observations that reveal the world as both sublimely beautiful and fundamentally unknowable, tracing the passage of time through nuanced light, shadow, and stillness. Van Keuren’s photogravures are quiet, contemplative observations- sublime monochromatic meditations on time, memory, and place. Claire Seidl takes a painterly approach to photography in her 2025 photogravures: the nocturnal images suggest a human presence whether or not figures appear; in long exposures, moving bodies become ghostlike while static elements remain fixed in time.

Rather than using photographic images, Peter Feldstein made tiny abstract drawings on translucent film which were enlarged in the darkroom to make photogravure plates. Their energetic swirls and crackle patterns convey a powerful sense of dynamism. Kate Petley blends 3-D and 2-D imagery, analog and digital processes and relief printing in her 2022 photogravure monoprints. Starting as she would begin a painting, Petley made simple, temporary objects which she then staged, lit and photographed with a digital camera, elevating the humble sculptural forms to mythical proportions through the process. Photogravure plates made from these images were hand-printed in black ink on paper, to which Petley added layers of color via relief printing and stencils to build layers of luminosity.