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Home>Yes No Maybe Introduction>Yes No Maybe Echoes Introduction>Yes No Maybe Fries

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Exhibition Introduction

Note to the ReaderAcknowledgments

IntroductionKeithJohnLeslieSelf-Portrait

IntroductionTouched RedGreenCombinationHigh Green Version 1

Introduction17 Drawings by ThoreauSeven Day Diary (Not Knowing)Changes and DisappearancesWhere R=RyoanjiFireThe Missing Stone 75 StonesEninkaStonesWhere There is Where There

IntroductionAnne ApplebyPia FriesDarren AlmondSusan MiddletonJoel FisherBrad BrownTom Marioni

IntroductionMamma AnderssonSol LeWittFred WilsonRobert BechtleKiki Smith

IntroductionJulie MehretuWayne ThiebaudJockum NordströmTomma AbtsNathan OliveiraChris Ofili

IntroductionPat SteirLaura OwensWayne ThiebaudAmy Sillman

# Pia Fries

Pia Fries, Falc, 2007
*Falc*(working proof)2007photogravure in black with watercolor and crayonadditions and cutout elementsplate: 28 1⁄4 × 21 1⁄4 (71.8 × 54)sheet: 36 3⁄16 × 28 (91.9 × 71.1)Crown Point Press© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Pia Fries, Falc, 2007
*Falc*(working proof)2007photogravure in blackplate: 27 1⁄2 × 19 1⁄2 (69.9 × 49.5)sheet: 35 5⁄8 × 26 3⁄4Crown Point Press© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Pia Fries, Falc, 2007
*Falc*2007color soapground aquatint, spitbite aquatint,photogravure, and rouletteplate: 27 1⁄2 × 19 1⁄2 (69.9 × 49.5)sheet: 34 3⁄4 × 25 1⁄2 (88.3 × 64.8)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Kathan Brown,2011© 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Pia Fries working at Crown Point Press, 2007; here, Fries uses a faux wood-grain tool to produce the effect of a paintedbrushstroke on the copperplate, photograph by Kathan Brown, Courtesy Crown Point Press

*Falc*, a made-up word that calls to mind “falcon” (*Falke*in the artist’s native German), conveys something of the print’s swooping, buoyant energy. Fries strives to create the impression that the elements in her work are “somehow strong enough to stay in the air.” In *Falc*, she made a photogravure of unfurling rolls of crepe paper that extend horizontally across the paper. She then tested options for achieving the illusion of buoyancy by pasting hand-painted cutouts of brushstrokes onto a printed working proof, which she subsequently highlighted with watercolor and crayon.

Banner image: Detail, Susan Middleton, *Requiem*, 2008, color photogravure, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Kathan Brown, Courtesy Susan Middleton

Next: Darren Almond

"Yes, No, Maybe: The Art of Making Decisions," lecture by exhibition curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)Julie Mehretu, artist, in conversation with curator Judith Brodie, Diamonstein-Spielvogel lecture (audio)"An Insider's Perspective," lecture by Kathan Brown, founder of Crown Point Press (audio)

Exhibition tour by curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)

Pia Fries in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

Crown Point Press prints in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

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