PROOF TESTING: THE PRINTLAB ARTIST RESIDENCY AT BRANDYWINE WORKSHOP AND ARCHIVES
June 18, 2026–October 26, 2026
Anne Bryan Gallery
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
This focused exhibition celebrates the PrintLab Artist Residency (2025–26) at Brandywine Workshop and Archives (BWA) in Philadelphia. An expansion of BWA’s Visiting Artist Residency Program, PrintLab enabled eight interdisciplinary artists to push the boundaries of printmaking. Working with collaborative printers Justine Ditto (BFA, PAFA, ’17) and Alexis Nutini, artists experimented with both traditional printmaking techniques and emerging technologies, including photolithography, woodcut, CNC routing, laser cutting, phototransfer, and animation. With rigorous attention to scale, color, materials, and layering, they explored themes of ancestry and memory, identity and mythology, diaspora and survival.
Proof Testing features eleven works and nine printing blocks created for PrintLab by El Anatsui, Lavett Ballard, Albert Chong, Willie Cole, Kakyoung Lee, Delita Martin, Jocelyn Akwaba Matignon, and Didier William. It also includes two prints from 2018, demonstrating how two of the participating artists built on their previous BWA residencies. By placing finished prints alongside working materials, Proof Testing illuminates how PrintLab served as an incubator for experimentation and innovation.
Proof Testing is organized in partnership with Brandywine Workshop and Archives. A concurrent exhibition, PrintLab: Material Futures, is on view at BWA June 18–October 26, 2026.
PrintLab at Brandywine Workshop and Archives has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.