Maya Stendhal Gallery :: Art World's Latest Sensation, Paula Scher, Paints the Town Red, Yellow, Green and Blue

NEW YORK, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Maya Stendhal Gallery is happy to announce two exhibition highlights, NYC Transit and Manhattan at night, will be released as hand-pulled screenprints in a limited edition of 90. Measuring 60" x 33.5" and printed on hand-made deluxe Lana Quarelle paper, the New York City screenprints are the latest installment in Paula Scher's vibrant series of maps. NYC Transit depicts the island of Manhattan as a bustling destination hub crisscrossed by a subway system of loopy, color-coded lines and stations. Its nighttime counterpart, Manhattan at night, depicts a city given form by its famed neighborhoods (SoHo, East Village, Chelsea, the Upper East Side, etc) rendered as marquee idols in light. Scher's screenprints to-date include The World, The United States and Africa.

THE ORIGINAL PRINT

The nature of the print as a serially produced image is its most powerful characteristic. As a conveyor of visual information in the form of exactly repeatable pictorial statements, the printed image is credited with advances in the sciences as well as the humanities. The advent of the industrial silkscreen process employed as a fine art medium by Pop artists of the 1960s, paved the way for prints to be prized as singular art objects collected in themselves. Paula Scher's screenprints, made in collaboration with Andy Warhol's master printer, Alexander Heinrici, are realized with the same hand-drawn elegance of her painted maps. Paula Scher is involved in every step of the printing process, redrawing new plates in the same style as the master printmakers of the 20th century. Each "original print" is inspected, signed, numbered and dated by the artist, and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

A SPECIAL LIMITED OFFER

Maya Stendhal Gallery is offering NYC Transit and Manhattan at night at a special pre-publication price of $3,500 each for a limited time. The price will increase to $5,000 each after the official publication release date of January 2008. There has been much interest generated by the celebrated New York City map paintings being made available as screenprints. Please contact us at the gallery to reserve your special edition number as we anticipate an enthusiastic response from the public and collectors worldwide.

Paula Scher's work has been exhibited in the world's leading museums including the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Denver Art Museum, the Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich, and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. She has taught for over two decades at the School of Visual Arts, and held positions at Cooper Union, Yale University and the Tyler School of Art. In 2002, Princeton Architectural Press published her career monograph Make It Bigger. Scher is an active member of the Art Commission of the City of New York. She first exhibited The Maps at Maya Stendhal Gallery in January 2006, and is a partner at Pentagram Design, Inc.

A full-page color catalogue from the exhibition is available.