RELIEF : LESLIE SACKS CONTEMPORARY

Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Leslie Sacks Contemporary is pleased to announce the exhibition Relief, featuring world-renowned artists John Baldessari, Joe Goode, Jason Martin, Jorge Pardo, Tom Wesselmann and Kwang-Young Chun. Relief examines the diverse constructions of these six artists as explored through the unique printmaking process pioneered by Los Angeles atelier MixografiaÒ. The MixografiaÒ technique turns the idea of the two-dimensional edition on paper on its head and allows for experimentation and ingenuity beyond the convention of this medium. It opens up the arena for object-oriented, conceptual artists to further explore their ideas through a process that achieves deeply textured relief with very fine surface detail. The MixografiaÒ workshop is an innovative institution that has worked with distinguished contemporary artists since its inception in 1968. Such an example of the fine detail and texture of the MixografiaÒ process is richly evidenced in Young