Cone Editions Press

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Cone Editions Press is now located in the rural village of East Topsham, Vermont. However, it was founded in 1980 in Port Chester, NY as an experimental, collaborative print workshop by Jon Cone. With an interest in painterly abstraction, Cone invited painters associated with the 1950's New York School including Norman Bluhm, Stanley Boxer, Lester Johnson and Wolf Kahn to collaborate with him in printmaking using screenprint, intaglio, and monoprint. In 1983, Cone began to work with artists of his own generation. Many younger painters made prints at the Port Chester, NY studio including Emily Cheng, Lydia Dona, Willy Heeks, David Humphrey, David Kapp, Archie Rand and Carole Seborovski. The studio's early emphasis was on direct techniques including hand drawn screenprints using crayons and resists developed by Jon Cone. In 1984 Jon Cone began experimenting with computers and printmaking. Cone considered these early experiments as an adjunct to the direct printmaking produced in the studio. One of the earliest collaborations with Joel Fisher produced temporal works in which the artist's drawings were digitized with an early prototype scanner and transformed by Cone into sound files which were edited with the artist's ears through a software produced in HyperCard by Cone. Ultimately, Cone and Fisher would produce unique computer derived screenprints as well as a unique etching produced from code written by Cone based on an anagram by Joel Fisher. In 1985, the studio added...

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