HYPERALLERGIC: May You Live in Interesting Times — The IFPDA Print Fair Asks, Do Bad Times Really Inspire Great Art?

This year’s edition brings together over 80 exhibitors presenting works from Francisco Goya to Kara Walker. April 9–12 at Park Avenue Armory.

May You Live in Interesting Times — The IFPDA Print Fair Asks, Do Bad Times Really Inspire Great Art?

Orit Hofshi, “Ephemeral Passage” 2025, woodcut, rubbing, colored pencils drawing on handmade Kozo & Abaca paper

We truly are living in “interesting” times — who among us could not use some therapy? Some would say that all art is therapy. In times of crisis, printmaking in particular has been an outlet for artists, serving as both a form of therapy and a powerful tool for critique and dissent...Israeli artist Orit Hofshi creates emotionally loaded landscapes in monumental woodcuts. In “Ephemeral Passage,” sepulchral boulders and horizons obscured by the fog of war frame figures in a landscape of violent colors evoking the ongoing man-made crisis in the region.