ART CITIES:San Francisco-Limited Editions

Limited Editions, also known as LE’s, have been standard in printmaking since the 19th Century. Today limited editions can be found in as many as two or 1000. Given today’s art market, smaller editions are more common, as it is assumed the lower the number in the edition, the more valuable and collectible the limited editions are likely to be.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: CCA Wattis Institute Archive

The CCA Wattis Institute continuing his series of Limited Editions, presents 3 new Limited Edition works by Sam Lewitt, Josephine Pryde, and Joan Jonas. For his solo exhibition at the Wattis Institute in 2015, Sam Lewitt redirected the building’s energy from light to heat by using oversized flexible heating circuits connected to the lighting track. His limited edition replicates the etchings of those heating circuits at a smaller scale. Josephine Pryde’s exhibition “Lapses in Thinking by the person I Am” included a functioning model train running through the gallery. The “Landscape” along the way was a suite of glossy photographs depicting hands touching or handling various objects and surfaces. Fond of museum souvenirs, Pryde has made a snow globe, with images of the exhibition, Joan Jonas has made “One Fish”, a limited edition print based on a series of drawings originally presented in Japan, and later included in the 2015 Venice Biennale, where Jonas represented the United States. All proceeds for the sale of editions go directly toward the support of Wattis exhibitions, programs, and research.

Info: CCA Wattis Institute, Kent and Vicki Logan Galleries, 360 Kansas Street, San Francisco, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 12:00-19:00, Sat 12:00-17:00, http://wattis.org