Link & Pin is excited to host PrintAustin’s 2023 5X5 exhibition, one of the print organization’s annual juried shows. Starting in 2021 as an online exhibit, the concept was to have artists judged on all five of the works submitted, with five artists chosen to display work, hence the name 5×5. Artists drawn to submit to this call have at least five pieces of work that can be presented together and stand out enough to be chosen among all the entries.
PrintAustin added a new dynamic to their 2023 call for artists and had two jurors pulling from identical submissions, creating two exhibitions–one hosted here by Link & Pin and one hosted by Form & Concept, a gallery in Santa Fe for the new festival, Print Santa Fe. Artists chosen for the 5X5 will receive bonus features, including an extended artist feature by PrintAustin and an opportunity to participate in additional programs such as IGTV, Zoom conference, podcast, or panel discussion related to their work or studio practice. For more information on these bonus features, please visit printaustin.org.

Artists:
Myles Calvert, Julia Curran, Mehdi Darvishi, Enrique Figuerdo, and Timothy Pauszek

About the Juror:  Holly Borham has been at the Blanton Museum of Art since 2017, where she is an Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Art. Her exhibitions include Fantastically French! Design and Architecture in 16th to 18th-Century Prints (2022), After Michelangelo, Past Picasso: Leo Steinberg\’s Library of Prints (2021), and Copies, Fakes, and Reproductions: Printmaking in the Renaissance (2019). Holly earned her Ph.D. in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University and is a Print Council of America member.

About our Curator: Annalise Gratovich is a first generation Ukrainian-American printmaker who exhibits nationally and internationally and travels as a guest artist and lecturer to Universities and print shops where her work is published. Annalise has a professional background in print publishing, curating, and collections management, and currently resides in the Prints and Drawings Department of the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. She sits on the Board of Directors of PrintAustin and Marfa Community Print, organizations promoting printmaking through education and community engagement.