VANDEB EDITIONS: DEBORAH FREEDMAN & MARJORIE VAN DYKE
We began our association at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop in 1998 when Deborah hired Marjorie to produce and print 8 large etchings for a commissioned folding screen. In 1999 Their shared passion for etching and monotype inspired them to found VanDeb Editions .
As the master printer, Marjorie facilitates each artists’ vision in a supportive and inventive collaboration. They produce an edition that is informed by their practice whether it be painting, sculpture or photography. Many have not made prints since art school and in some cases not at all.
Deborah is responsible for promotion on the website and social media, co-curating the yearly Women’s History exhibition and print fairs, and client cultivation. They always agree with whom to work to produce etchings, aquatints and monoprints of the highest aesthetic and production values. Our partnership has greatly benefited ourselves and over 55 artists with whom we have collaborated.
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The over 53 artists on the VanDeb website have appreciated not only creating their prints but have seen them sold and exhibited widely. We attend art fairs, mount exhibits and widely promote on social media. We have developed relationships with art consultants and curators all over the country who refer to our constantly updated website for things that can work for their clients whether they be private, corporate or institutional.
Prints published by VanDeb Editions are included in selected collections: The Cleveland Clinic, The US Department of State, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, Rutgers Archive for Printmaking Studio, IPCNY, The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Architects Newspaper, Nordstrom, J. Crew, Marriott, Montefiore Hospital, NYU Langone, Memorial Sloan Kettering, New Standard Hospital, Inova Schar Cancer Institute Fairfax Va, and NY Presbyterian Hospital.
A partial list of venues that have included VanDeb prints: IPCNY, SITE Brooklyn, the Grolier Club, Susan Eley Gallery, NYC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Mezzanine Gallery, Guild Hall, Kent State at Canton: “Painters Prints”, Knox College:Galesburg, Ill., Gallery Ami & Kanoko: Osaka,Japan, CCP, Silvermine Arts Center ,Denise Bibro Gallery,The National Arts Club, Paul Kuhn Gallery,Calgary, Pyramida Center, Haifa Israel, Salmagundi Club NYC, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY, Lori Bookstein Gallery NYC, SchoolHouse Gallery, Portland, Me. and Chandler Fine Art, San Francisco, Ca.
An exhibition in the 37th Street Studio, 2004
