Under Pressure

An analysis of Two Palms Press, New York City, founded in 1996 by the artist David Lasry. The book explores works by Pedro Barbeito, Mel Bochner, Chuck Close, Tara Donovan, Caroll Dunham, Sol LeWitt, David Row, Jessica Stockholder and Terry Winters.

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Founded five years ago by David Lasry, Two Palms Press, located in New York City, has collaborated with a fairly limited number of artists but in a highly intensive fashion. That alone would make for a situation in which artist and printer influence each other deeply. But perhaps more important is the fact that Lasry himself is an artist. His choice of collaborators reflect his artistic interest, not only his technical ones. Whether an artist is well established or up and coming, the printer's role is to get inside the artist's skin and to elicit potentialities the artist may not have realized were there. Included here are works by Pedro Barbeito, Mel Bochner, Chuck Close, Tara Donovan, Caroll Dunham, Sol LeWitt, David Row, Jessica Stockholder, and Terry Winters.