Unique prints on cloth and complete portfolio sets by Louise Bourgeois will be on view, highlighting the artist’s lifelong themes of childhood, motherhood, familial identity, and human sexuality. Bourgeois says of printmaking, “the whole history of the creative process is there. In painting or in sculpture it would be gone”. After focusing on her sculpture for nearly forty years, printmaking became a daily activity for Louise Bourgeois from the 1980s until her death in 2010.

For the first time, Marlborough Graphics New York is pleased to present a selection of monotypes by Liorah Tchiprout. Tchiprout's work explores girlhood, belonging, and the theatrical, underpinned by a rigorous practice of drawing. Her work is informed by a legacy of Yiddish theatre and literature, with writers such as Rachel Korn, Miriam Karpilove and Issac Bashevis Singer sited as major influences. She builds physical puppet characters to construct her own pantheon from which to draw images.

Chinese-born French artist Zao Wou-Ki worked extensively in a variety of mediums, including watercolor, ink, and printmaking across a five-decade practice. Zao is recognized for his nonrepresentational paintings that blended Eastern and Western modes of art making. ‘Everybody is bound by a tradition. I am bound by two,’ the artist once reflected. Brushstrokes—whether in color or black ink—become abstract image fields in which foreground and background are in constant flux.

A selection of monotypes by Laura Anderson Barbata will be on view. Born in 1958 in Mexico City, Laura Anderson Barbata is a transdisciplinary artist, performer, writer, and educator who lives and works between New York and Mexico City. Since the early-1990s, Anderson Barbata has initiated art-centered projects in the United States, the Venezuelan Amazon, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, and Norway which emphasize reciprocity, shared knowledge, and decolonial thinking.

While he may be best known as a painter, prints play a critical role in Lucian Freud’s practice. After a 34-year hiatus, he returned to printmaking in the early 1980s. Always working directly from his models and demarcating their forms through meticulous networks of finely etched lines, these portraits contain a remarkable honesty and an awkwardness that adds to the psychological tension.

A selection of recent monoprints by Benedict Scheuer will be included in the show. Scheuer practices a quiet spirituality—felt while sitting on his porch, tending his dahlias, and working in the studio. Within this practice, drawing and painting are instruments of devotion, connecting the body to that which exists outside of it. The artist will have a solo exhibition at Marlborough New York this November.

Rufino Tamayo produced many lithographs, etchings, and Mixografia® prints. The Mixografia® method was conceived in 1973 as the result of a collaboration between the artist and Taller de Gráfica Mexicana. The production of a Mixografia® print involves placing wet paper pulp over a three-dimensional printing plate and running it through the press at high pressure. The moist paper fibers are forced into the grooves of the plate, absorbing the ink and forming the raised quality of the print.

The IFPDA Print Fair will be on view from October 26 through October 29 at the Javits Center in New York City.