Hard Press Editions and The Mission Critical Series

One of Jon Gams’  great passions was the Mission Critical Series. He viewed it as THE avenue for contemporary art critics to publish current thought and debate about art. The mission critical series evolved out of his relationship in particular with art critic and professor Raphael Rubinstein.  Jon edited Rubinstein”s poetry in the 90s and [...]

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George Stengel: New Hope Impressions

Hard Press Editions was approached by a private collector and admirer of George Stengel to catalogue his collection.  Stengel was an American painter taken with the French Impressionists, who returned to Pennsylvania and imitated their technique on American soil. The results are colorful snapshots of a time in American history when Industry greets pristine nature — [...]

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Marjorie Strider/ Dramatic Gestures

 Every once in a while at Hard Press Editions, we have the chance to bring someone’s work back to center stage. Marjorie Strider was a female pop artist exhbiting with some of the biggest artists at the time;  working with rubber and producing some pretty exciting three dimensional larger than life art such as a [...]

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Raffaele D’Onofrio

I was introduced to Raffaele D’Onofrio by Jon Gams and was taken by the intricacy of his explorations of  science, nature and the human connection to our botanical and biological surroundings — on canvas.  His work is made up of a series of fine dots and strokes. At times, you think you spot a DNA [...]

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Tibor Freund at the Painting Center, NYC 1/2008

A private collector of the work of Tibor Freund (1910-2007) came to me with the monumental job of cataloging and archiving a lifetime of Tibor Freund’s paintings, artwork, documents and journals.  The culmination of this work was an exhibition at the Painting Center in New York City.  Tibor Freund was instrumental in bringing movement, three [...]

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Susan Meiselas/ Kurdistan: In the Shadows of History

One college summer,  I worked as a researcher at Magnum Photos in New York City. From the basement of  Magnum Photographer Susan Meiselas’  house, I was given instructions on my duties.  And, one day a week, I set off for the New York Public Library, pouring through 19th century Western newspapers for mentions of Kurdistan. [...]

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