W/G/B is one of Marco Breuer's first explorations of the traditional medium of printmaking. Traditional in the sense that the artist had in the past explored many ways of mechanical image-making, some of them very similar to printmaking techniques, but he had not specifically attempted to create a conventional edition within the confines of any particular print medium. In fact, he still has not, since W/G/B found the artist creating groups of images (some of them etched, some screened, some relief-printed) and then arranged in sets of three, each different that the others. Each print was made using a variety of printmaking and/or mark-making techniques, from intaglio, relief printing, screenprinting and monoprinting to scoring, hole-punching, hammering, pin-pricking and folding, or a combination of each. W/G/B (the title referring to a shortened photographic grey scale) further explores Breuer's themes of time, repetition, process, materiality, and evidence of physical activity. The imagery ranges from simple to complex, and the results, although black and white, show quite a range of 'color' in their grays. The grey scale is referenced by the fact that the first sheet in each triptych was printed on white Fabriano paper, the second on Magnani Grey and the third on Arches Cover Black. Breuer has been primarily engaged with photographic papers as his medium of choice in the past, exploring the many ways the paper and emulsions could be manipulated to create the marks and colors he was looking for. With the medium of printmaking, the artist found the process as equally restraining as that of photography, if not more. The inks, presses and repetitive nature of the process were a very specific challenge, and not particularly interesting in their rigidity. In the end Breuer imposed not only one but two structures of his own on the project: The 'photographic' triptych format, and the non-repetitive freedom that monoprinting gave him to create this edition.

Marco Breuer has exhibited extensively, including the following group exhibitions: Open Ends-Actual Size, Museum of Modern Art, NY, A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Low Tech, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, Phenomena, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA, Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Kit, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY, Diverse Visions/photographic perspectives, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, Art On Paper 1996, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, Der zerteilte Blick, DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany, Selections Summer Õ96, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Incestuous, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, Fairytaile in the Supermarket, Edinburgh, Scotland, Collaborations, Kamin Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, Autoparticulates, MTA/Arts For Transit, New York, NY, Photography in an Extended Field, White Columns, New York, NY, Borderlines and Ansichten von Alexandra S., Frankfurt/Main, Germany & Neuer Berliner Kunstverien Berlin, Germany, Essential Material: Selected Book Projects at Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY & the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, among many others. He has had dozens of solo gallery exhibitions internationally as well. Marco Breuer is represented by Von Lintel Gallery, NY.

Other artworks by Marco Bruer

Untitled, 2002