Printmaking with Purpose

Another gifted artist we were very fortunate to discover through REEMERGE in summer ‘22 is MICAELA PIRZIO-BIROLI. Their copper etching in that show, evoking medieval imagery, won over the jury and took down a prize. The artist now returns in our 2023 AUTUMN INVITATIONAL (closing Friday) with a series of new prints that shares some similar timeless qualities but brackets a wider range of inspirations. Pirzio-Biroli is even more nimble in their creative practice, which “draws from my personal history to explore themes of ritual, disability, queerness and biracial identity,” they tell us. “Working across printmaking, performance, sculpture and installation, I translate corporeal stories across multiple dimensions — moving between works on paper and forms in time and space.... In darkly humorous scenes depicting ridiculous semi-human figures, I invite my audience into the chaos and absurdity of my internal world, honoring the nonsensical as a force of resistance.” All these works are available for purchase right now in person or online (offthewallgallery.org).

MICAELA PIRZIO-BIROLI
(in order of the portfolio shown)
“Waiting for Diagnosis”
14 x 15.5 framed
four-layer woodblock reduction
325.

“Best Face Forward”
15 x 17.5 framed
woodcut
250.

“The Destroyer”
17.5 x 14.5 framed
three-layer linoleum reduction
225.

“Self Potrait”
12 x 10 framed
monotype
125.

Doubleheader Today

No doubt, many are going to book it out of work just a little early to make it to a screen for NLCS Game3, with its 5:07 start time. We humbly suggest you choose the big screen at DIRTY FRANK'S. And after the #heroics of Schwarber-Turner-Harper-Realmuto-Castellanos, we invite you to transition to our OFF THE WALL lineup: Masrour...Pirzio-Biroli...Plumley...Why...and Wynn with the OPENING RECEPTION of the 2023 AUTUMN INVITATIONAL. To be frank (which we always are at Frank’s), it’s ONE BIG PARTY! So doubles, double plays, punchouts and long balls, 5-8 PM. Then drawing and illustration, painting (including 3D wine box paintings), and printmaking, 7-10 PM. Drinks, conversation and curator JODY SWEITZER, who will bartend, then cede her gig to ROSE COSSABONE and host, ensure that the fun, red dots and #RedOctober pick up momentum throughout. See you tonight!