August 13, 2022 – March 12, 2023

Interactive Gallery 

Structure of Prints weaves together the story of a partnership between the women-owned printmaking workshop, Berghoff-Cowden Editions, and art collector Dorothy Mitchell. To complement Building Legacies: Architecture & Design, this exhibition showcases Berghoff-Cowden Editions’ masterful use of unconventional techniques to construct a print much like an architect would construct a building. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, the Berghoff-Cowden workshop pushed the boundaries of screenprinting as a fine art medium. They encouraged artists to experiment with materials and techniques such as cutting and reassembling shapes, flocking with peat moss, sewing, and folding edges in their prints. This transformed traditional screenprinting from a two-dimensional medium into a three-dimensional construction made of paper, fabric, and collage. The result was an innovative body of mixed-media screenprint editions by artists including Brad Davis, Frank Faulkner, Sam Gilliam, Roberto Juarez, Miriam Schapiro, George Sugarman, and Robert Zakanitch.

Thank you to our sponsor Mary Mitchell Avery!

Watch the video of the Structure of Prints Gallery Talk with Linda Berghoff, Printmaker and Professor of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg College, November 17, 2022.

Image credit:

Miriam Schapiro (Canadian, 1923-2015), In the Heat of Winter, 1995, screenprint and collaged with hand cut printed flowers and fabric on Lenox rag paper, 33 x 62 in., Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, St. Petersburg College, gift of the Dorothy Mitchell Collection, 2005.48.1