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d.a. levy: Subversive Printmaking in 1960s Cleveland
Opening Reception: Friday, January 17, 5-8pm
ON VIEW: January 17 - March 1, 2025
Gallery Hours: FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS 12-4pm or by appointment during the week (click here to set up appointment)
Zygote Press is thrilled to be showing work by Cleveland poet and printer d.a.levy as part of the new exhibition d.a. levy: Subversive Printmaking in 1960s Cleveland. For a limited time, original works by levy will be on view which have been generously loaned by the Michael Schwartz Library at Cleveland State University. This exhibition focuses on levy’s use of printmaking - specifically his letterpress, pressure prints, photocollage, ditto (spirit duplicator) and mimeographic work. While there has been plenty of scholarship on levy as a poet, there has not been much attention paid to his actual printmaking skills and methodology. This show will explore how levy used these techniques to communicate his ideas, both in populist formats like his many publications, but also in his two Cleveland Print folios, which were very much a fine art enterprise.
In addition, Cleveland poet, artist, and Zygote PROOF Fellow R.A. Washington will be curating an installation inspired by levy’s work. The installation will include two new poems by celebrated Cleveland poets Kisha Nicole Foster and Michelle R. Smith.
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