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We hope you join us for the ADAA Fair, November, 12 - 16, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Visit us in Booth B12 w...
10/14/2026

We hope you join us for the ADAA Fair, November, 12 - 16, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Visit us in Booth B12 where we will be exhibiting editions by Sadie Barnette, Dawoud Bey, McArthur Binion, Derek Fordjour and Martin Puryear.

1996 - 2026 Celebrating 30 years!In our 1,500 square foot studio on 55th Street in Emeryville, California—on a small, bo...
10/07/2026

1996 - 2026 Celebrating 30 years!

In our 1,500 square foot studio on 55th Street in Emeryville, California—on a small, borrowed, hand-crank press—we printed our first edition by Christopher Brown, aptly titled Start. Since that time, the press has established itself in Berkeley and published over 700 editions and invited over 60 artists from all over the country to make prints, many returning multiple times.

In addition to artists, we have collaborated with architects, art consultants, book binders, chefs, collectors, conservators, curators, designers, fabricators, framers, galleries, ink producers, machinists, museums, non-profits, papermakers, photogravurists, scholars, and vintners.

We’ve trained over 20 printers and a multitude of interns. Our dedicated team now includes three Master Printers, a Gallery Director and Gallery Manager. By account, we have used approximately 25,935 pounds of copper (1,641,600 square inches), 220 gallons of ferric acid, 9,280,833 square feet of paper, and 2,112 pounds of etching ink. We have three presses with a maximum bed size of 96” x 52”.

For 30 years, we have maintained one purpose—to produce and publish the best intaglio etchings possible with the world’s preeminent artists. Our mission has been to steward the long history of the print atelier and to expand upon what is possible in the medium. Most importantly, we’ve strived to emphasize overlooked voices, while extending the field to larger audiences.

This endeavor requires that we continue to respect and improve our craft, challenge our own conventions—and most of all—love what we do.

Here’s to another 30 years!

Cheers,
Pam, Rhea, and the PFP Crew

Congratulations 🎉Nightsong is on view Los Angeles September 13 – October 11, 2025 | Tues – Sat, 6 – 10 PM “Conceived a...
09/14/2025

Congratulations 🎉

Nightsong is on view Los Angeles September 13 – October 11, 2025 | Tues – Sat, 6 – 10 PM

“Conceived as a “giant music box in the dark,” Nightsong transforms the gallery into a dreamlike environment where Fordjour has staged painting and sculpture amidst a live performance set. The exhibition features a four-hour song cycle of live musical performances and original scores, composed for the exhibition with no two viewings exactly alike.

Setting the stage are a group of intimate “covers” paintings paying homage to Black artistic forebears and the Harlem Renaissance, extending an art historical dialogue across generations. From there, the exhibition unfolds through a multidisciplinary interplay of painting and sculpture, each work narrating distinct moments in the development of Black music: from hush harbors and spirituals to Motown harmonies and beyond.

At the heart of Nightsong is a powerful reflection on the voice as a tool of resistance, survival, celebration, love, and transformation while also exploring tensions between expression and erasure, presence and commodification.”

Works by three artists we’ve had the privilege of working with and publishing: Alicia McCarthy, Chris Johanson, and Marg...
09/08/2025

Works by three artists we’ve had the privilege of working with and publishing: Alicia McCarthy, Chris Johanson, and Margaret Kilgallen are included in the exhibition Bay Area Then
curated by
On view through January 25, 2026

Artists included:
NAO BUSTAMANTE
CAROLYN CASTAÑO
BILL DANIEL
SERGIO DE LA TORRE
AND CHRIS TREGGIARI
BEATRIX FOWLER
MIKE “DREAM” FRANCISCO
JOHANNA JACKSON
CHRIS JOHANSON
AND AJAX OAKFORD
ARNOLD KEMP
MARGARET KILGALLEN
JOSH LAZCANO
ALICIA MCCARTHY
BARRY MCGEE
RUBY NERI
MANUEL OCAMPO
EAMON ORE-GIRON
GINA OSTERLOH
RIGO 23
SPIE ONE

Art makes things better.✨
08/13/2025

Art makes things better.✨

We had a joyous time working with in the studio this week. After years of discussion, it was a great honor to host one ...
08/01/2025

We had a joyous time working with in the studio this week. After years of discussion, it was a great honor to host one of the foremost photographers of our time. We can’t wait to share the new work with you!
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Congratulations ✨✨✨✨ “𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗺𝗮𝗻: 𝗔 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗼𝘂𝘁,” On view from July 24-August 30, 2025, the exhibition will ...
07/26/2025

Congratulations ✨✨✨✨

“𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗺𝗮𝗻: 𝗔 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗼𝘂𝘁,” On view from July 24-August 30, 2025, the exhibition will present new Afrofuturist paintings from the artist’s acclaimed Traumanaut series.

Repost from •🗞️This just in: The spotlights the powerful bond between Henry Taylor () and his mentor James Jarvaise () ...
06/29/2025

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🗞️This just in: The spotlights the powerful bond between Henry Taylor () and his mentor James Jarvaise () in a feature by Carolina Miranda ().

‘There are a lot of people that teach karate, but they’re not Bruce Lee,’ Taylor says. ‘Jarvaise was Bruce Lee.’

Opening tomorrow at Downtown LA, a new exhibition brings together their work for the first time.

Read the full story and plan your visit via the link in bio.

1 Henry Taylor. Photo: Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times
2 James Jarvaise and Henry Taylor in 2015 at Jarvaise’s studio in Santa Barbara. Courtesy The Estate of James Jarvaise
3 James Jarvaise, Man in the Room, 1963 © The Estate of James Jarvaise. Photo: Keith Lubow
4 Henry Taylor, Self portrait w/ Cigarette, 1988 © Henry Taylor Photo: Jeff McLane
5 Henry Taylor. Photo: Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times

Repost from •Now Open: “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press.” Worl...
05/10/2025

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Now Open: “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press.” World-famous fine art prints and quilts come to Sarasota for the first time in this nationally travelling exhibition.

“Personal to Political” is organized by and curated by Carrie Lederer, former Bedford Gallery curator.



📸David Huffman (American, born 1963). Installation view of “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press” at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

📸 Lonnie Holley (American, born 1950). Installation view of “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press” at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

📸 Radcliffe Bailey (American, 1968-2023). Installation view of “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press” at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

📸 Mary Lee Bendolph (American, born 1935). “Strips and Strings,” 2005. Quilted fabric, 88 x 83 in. Installation view of “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press” at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

📸 Mary Lee Bendolph (American, born 1935). Installation view of “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press” at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

📸 Mary Lee Bendolph (American, born 1935). “Strip Quilt,” 2008. Quilted fabric, 85 x 81 in. Installation view of “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press” at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

We are pleased to release four new editions by Greg Rick. For more information please contact info@paulsonfontainepress...
04/03/2025

We are pleased to release four new editions by Greg Rick.

For more information please contact [email protected]
Link to newsletter in bio.






Greg Rick makes powerful paintings that delve into archetypal explorations of human nature. His rhythmic works writhe with movement, blurring lines between history painting and abstraction. Like Guston’s pile-ups, Rick compresses gesture and form to provoke ideas of struggle, confrontation, and transcendence. While mining his personal experiences with the 101st Airborne, he joins a long tradition of artists like Picasso, Goya, Pippin and Léger who used paint to mourn the spoils of war.

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