No pressure. No diamonds.
The five decades of Jack Lemon’s life’s work was not just producing and publishing the prints, multiples, portfolios, books, posters, magazines, catalogs, and 33rpm and 45rpm vinyl records, it’s also the relationships he’s initiated and maintained over those 50 years. Landfall Press has maintained a reputation all along for ground-breaking diversity, inclusion and forward thinking artists; many who made their first prints with Jack Lemon have continued to do so through Landfall’s five decades of operation.
Landfall Press was founded in 1970 at 63 West Ontario Street in Chicago. The workshop was relocated five times over five decades, each time the scale of the workshop expanded and grew.
Jack Lemon and Christo at 63 West Ontario Street, Chicago. They are proofing Christo’s “Whitney Museum, Packed” lithograph included in the portfolio “Some Not, Realized Projects” 1971
Jack Lemon and Barb Spies Labus proof a lithograph by Jack Cowin at 215 West Superior Street, the workshop’s second location in Chicago, 1983.
Landfall Press Senior Printer Steve Campbell and artist Kara Walker proofing her first large scale etching project “The Means to an end…A Shadow Drama in Five Acts” at Landfall’s third location at 329 West 18th Street in Chicago, 1995.
Landfall’s fourth location at 1589 San Mateo Lane in Santa Fe, New Mexico
This vintage Marinoni-Voirin direct lithography press built/used in Paris during the 1800’s is printing editions at 1143 Siler Park Lane, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Landfall Press’s final location, 2019.
The exhibition Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking was curated by Jack Lemon, Thomas Cvikota and Nikki Otten (Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum). This exhibition highlighted editions printed and published at Landfall Press, Inc. from 1970-2019. This exhibition will travel to other venues through 2024. Inquiries about the exhibition and book may be made using the contact section of this website.
Photography credits: David Keister, Landfall Press, Thomas Cvikota, Peter Ellzey
Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking
OCTOBER 23, 2019 - FEBRUARY 9, 2020 AT THE MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM
The traveling exhibition - Landfall Press: Five Decades is currently accepting applications from institutions interested in hosting the exhibition. Please contact Jack Lemon at info@landfallpress.com