Prints
Editions, the artists who make them, and the people who queue for them.
5 posts · 2014–2026
For most fans a print was the realistic way to own something by an artist whose walls they knew, and a release was news in its own right: a small run, signed and numbered, and sometimes gone within minutes when the name was big enough.
The pages here come at editions by way of the show. In April 2014 ELLE hung screen-printed paper dresses beside Martha Cooper’s photographs of children playing in the streets of 1970s and 1980s New York, at Mecka Gallery in Brooklyn. Stanley Donwood’s Dream Cargo, at Lawrence Alkin Gallery in 2015, gathered the covers he made for a reissue of J. G. Ballard’s books. Mr. Jago opened NIL at Unit London that October, and Blek le Rat marked Vertical Gallery’s fourth year in Chicago with Ratical in 2017.
A piece from 2026 looks at collecting when an edition sells out almost as soon as it goes up.