Press Release: Pressing Matters: 500 Years of Wine in Art from the Sterling Vineyards Print Portfolio

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[Your Institution] Hosts Pressing Matters: 500 Years of Wine in Art from the Sterling Vineyards Print Portfolio

Since ancient times, wine has played an important role in people’s lives, as a part of religious ceremonies, public celebrations, entertainment, and family gatherings. It is therefore only natural that artists, reflecting the life and customs of the times in which they lived, would incorporate images of wine, winemaking, and grapes into their work.

Pressing Matters: 500 Years of Wine in Art from the Sterling Vineyards Print Portfolio, opening [opening date] at [your institution], shows the many ways in which artists have used wine as subject matter. Selected from the extensive collection of the Sterling Vineyards Portfolio of Wine Art and History, the exhibition presents examples of the printmaker’s craft as well as a cultural appreciation of wine through centuries of art.

The 50 prints on view range from works by 15th- and 16th-century European masters up to the 20th century and are executed in a variety of printmaking techniques, including steel engraving, woodcut, etching, and lithography. From a 1523 engraving by Lucas van Leyden to a satirical etching by Thomas Rowlandson of 1787 and a color lithograph of Faun and Sailor by Picasso, the exhibition explores the beauty, humor, and social aspects of wine culture throughout history.

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Pressing Matters, funded in part by generous support from Sterling Vineyards, is curated by Joanna Reiling Lindell, an independent curator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the exhibition is organized and toured by ExhibitsUSA. The purpose of ExhibitsUSA is to create access to an array of arts and humanities exhibitions, nurture the development and understanding of diverse art forms and cultures, and encourage the expanding depth and breadth of cultural life in local communities. ExhibitsUSA is a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1972.

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