2026 Printmakers Showcase

Commanding Color

This year’s PGNY Printmakers Showcase is a full-blown celebration of the power of color in printmaking: vibration, mood, saturation, and juicy ink; limited palettes paired with black & white for contrast and impact; subtle translucent layers, colored papers and more. Artworks incorporate a range of traditional and contemporary print techniques including screen prints, linocut and woodcuts, risographs, monotypes, etchings, lithographs, letterpress, and mixed media. The show embodies PGNY’s mission to honor and highlight the diversity of work created by contemporary artists working with print-based media.

Participating Artists

We are thrilled to present 50 artists from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont in this year’s exhibition:

Gardner Astalos, Miguel Ayuso, Cameron Bailey, Patrick Barrett, McKayla Bensheimer, Aurora Brush, Karen Brussat Butler, Lyell Castonguay, Jamison Cloud, Teke Cocina, Gerard Dalbon, Ella Desmond, Kirstin Dunlap, Jenni Freidman, Karen Gerstenberger, Edgar Hartley, Valeria Rachel Herrera, Martha Hill, Sophia Hisert, Jodi Hoover, Yuki Kano, Hedya Klein, David Klein, Kate Kosek, Lucila Lagru, Suzy LaRocca, Polly M. Law, Melissa Ling, Mary Reilly Mathews, Aleksey Nisenboym, Ali Osborn, Gina Palmer, Richard Pantell, Polly Perkins, Michael Piotrowski, Mitchell Poon, Lindsey Potoff, Emma Psyllos, Scott Reeds, Catherine Rizos, Amy Silberkleit, Michael Smoot, James Schutt, Fabiana Touhey, Nancy Valle, Nate Voellm, Carolyn Webb, John Wegner, Karen Whitman, Keely Wu

Opening Reception & Visiting the Gallery

Commanding Color is hosted by The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy, NY 12180

Opening Reception: Friday, September 25, 6-8 pm

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday 12 pm – 7 pm
Wednesday 12 Ppm – 7 pm
Thursday 12 pm – 7 pm
Friday 12 pm – 5 pm
Saturday 10 am – 2 pm*

*If you plan to visit on a Saturday through October, you will discover the Troy Waterfront Farmer’s Market has taken over downtown Troy! Please note it may be challenging to find parking during this busy, weekly event. The market moves indoors beginning in November.

2026 Exhibition Jurors

Noah Breuer

Noah Breuer is an American artist originally from Berkeley, California. His creative work examines themes of family, identity, labor and diaspora. His current project examines the visual legacy of “Carl Breuer and Sons,” his Jewish family’s former textile printing business, founded 1897 in Bohemia and seized by the Nazis in 1939. Breuer holds a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Columbia University, and a graduate research certificate in traditional woodblock printmaking and paper-making from Kyoto Seika University in Japan.

Recent solo exhibitions include Return to Austria at the Austrian Cultural Forum (Prague), Reclamation at the National Czech and Slovak Museum & Library (Cedar Rapids, IA, 2023), Table Settings at Urban Glass (Brooklyn, NY, 2023), and Something Stolen / Something New at Atelier Circulaire (Montreal, QC, 2022). His artist books have been published by the San Francisco Center for the Book and Small Editions in Brooklyn. His work is in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library and the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Breuer currently works as an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo SUNY.

Richard Kegler

Richard Kegler formed P22 Type Foundry in 1994 and, after starting the Book Arts Center in Buffalo, New York, became the director of the Wells College Book Arts Center in Aurora, NY. Richard has spent his career combining an interest in traditional printing crafts with entrepreneurial initiatives. His current project, Dry Inc., involves pre-digital letterpress printing technologies, typography, and new printing tool development. His printing studio, also called Dry Inc., focuses on experimental letterpress printmaking. Kegler is also the president of the Print Club of Rochester.

Amanda Kralovic

Amanda Kralovic was born and raised in the Saratoga Springs, NY area. She graduated from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in May 2015 with her MFA in Printmaking. Her work has been exhibited in many juried national and international exhibitions in the United States and New Zealand. Her recent work deals with the emotional and natural sensations of water as it moves through and around the body and mind, portrayed through shape, pattern and color. Amanda has taught art at several colleges including Middlebury College, SUNY Adirondack, Central Michigan University, and University of Albany. Currently she is teaching at Emma Willard School and University of Albany.

Curator

Rachael Lorimer

Rachael Sophrin Lorimer is a multi-disciplinary printmaker, painter, and educator. Her abstract artworks layer light and texture to mimic the sensation and scale of natural spaces. As a 2022-2024 Creatives Rebuild NY Artist Employment Program grant recipient, Rachael merged her printmaking practice with community development, folding her strengths in communication and facilitation into her creative process through workshops, interviews, and curation of community-made artworks. In 2024, she founded the Printmakers Guild of NY, a regional, artist-led professional community for printmakers. In this volunteer role, she leads the collaborative production of PGNY exhibitions, activities and print fairs; regional events designed to offer networking and economic opportunity to contemporary printmakers residing in New York and neighboring states. Rachael holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and currently lives in Troy, NY.