EDITION JACOB SAMUEL
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION


The Hammer Museum presents a major exhibition marking the joint acquisition of the complete archive of prints by Los Angeles publisher Edition Jacob Samuel by the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Since 1988 Jacob Samuel has published 43 portfolios of prints made by a diverse group of international artists. (Run time: 2 min.)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS


Composer and performer Meredith Monk sang while she made her prints with master printer Jacob Samuel. (Run time: 2 min.)



Artist Miroslaw Balka and master printer Jacob Samuel collected footprints of homeless men in Santa Monica for Balka's print series, as recounted by Samuel. (Run time: 2 min., 9 sec.)



Matt Mullican makes art under hypnosis. (Run time: 1 min., 37 sec.)



Marina Abramovic treats printmaking as performance, as told by master printer Jacob Samuel. (Run time: 1 min., 35 sec.)



Master printer Jacob Samuel talks about traveling to Italy to work with artist Jannis Kounellis. (Run time: 1 min., 44 sec.)



Master printer Jacob Samuel on working with artist Matthew Monahan. (Run time: 1 min., 27 sec.)



Master printer Jacob Samuel discusses Barry McGee's use of the drypoint printmaking process. (Run time: 1 min., 16 sec.)