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Article: The Medium Is the Machine; With a $125,000 Computer Printer, Gallery Hosts a Graphic Revolution
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- The Washington Post
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- November 26, 1994
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Some look like lavish color photographs, others like richly
textured pastel drawings or fool-the-eye lithographs.
But the fact is that all 10 images by 10 area artists in the
dazzling new "Washington Portfolio," at David Adamson Gallery, were
made by the same machine: They are all computer printouts.
No ordinary printouts, to be sure, but printouts nonetheless.
And they mark the debut not only of David Adamson's first portfolio
of artist-made, limited-edition Iris art prints, but also of his new
$125,000 Iris inkjet color printer - until now, a lagging technology
that had delayed for a decade Adamson's dream of establishing a
digital art workshop. "The computer technology was well ...