For Immediate Release:
On Wednesday, April 1, Produce Exhibitions will celebrate the
opening of Tyler School of Art with Print Liberation, a self-titled,
site-specific installation project by the creative visual duo of Jamie
Dillon and Nick Paparone, local artists who have found success both in
Philadelphia and around the world for their non-traditional, DIY
practices in printmaking and graphic design.
Transplanting visual, material, and aural aspects of their company
workspace and entrepreneurial history into the Tyler Student Lounge
Gallery, Dillon and Paparone will engage gallery-goers with ideas of
consumer culture and their own professional practice while dually
imposing their commercial “artifacts” and production residue into the
dynamic of the “white cube” space. Print Liberation opens on Wednesday,
April 1, 2009 and Nick Paparone and Jamie Dillon will be conducting a
lecture at 11 am that day. The opening reception will be held on April
2, 2009 at 7:30pm, and the show will remain open to the public through
Saturday, April 11, with a closing performance set for Monday, April
13. Produce has also organized a Print Liberation-inspired printmaking
event on Wednesday, April 15 in conjunction with Temple University’s
Spring Fling.
Nick Paparone and Jamie Dillon’s commerce-driven experiment called
Print Liberation is a grassroots, creative company currently based in
Philadelphia that specializes in non-traditional graphic design,
posters, print ad campaigns, and t-shirt design. Their work has been
featured in New York Times Style, LA Times, Creativity Magazine, Nylon,
New York Style Magazine, and Philadelphia Weekly and their designs have
been used by Urban Outfitters, Free People, Philly Car Share, and Nike.
More information can be found on their website, www.printliberation.com.