 Cone Editions Press founded in 1980 in Port Chester, NY as an experimental and collaborative printmaking studio, has been at the forefront of the digital print revolution since 1984. Its Master Printer, Jon Cone, has been producing imaginative and technically difficult editions for photographers, painters and sculptors through four decades, nearly mirroring the entire history of American Contemporary Printmaking. Cone Editions Gallery in the prestigious SoHo gallery district of NYC introduced digital print exhibitions to a New York audience in the late 1980s with shows such as The Proof, a contrast to the monumental Poem Prints exhibition of Norman Bluhm and John Yau, and the infamous Potato Prints exhibition of the Jon Cone/Archie Rand collaboration.
 In 1990, Cone Editions relocated to the small, rural village of East Topsham, Vermont and dedicated itself to the development of digital printmaking. Cone built a separate 4200 square foot post and beam studio with private artist's quarters. Initially the studio combined digital imaging with screenprint, photogravure, relief print and monoprint.
Cone has been developing digital methodologies and workflow which have enabled scores of photographers, imagers, digital service providers, and teachers to embrace the latest technologies with confidence and skill. Considered to be the first pioneer of digital printmaking, Cone later went on to become IRIS Graphics Development and Marketing Partner for fine arts in the early 1990s, training an entire generation of Giclée printers. Cone has been  the leading developer of archival inkjet and color management systems since the late 1990s. Cone invented the first quad-black inks and software system which used "media" profiles in 1996. He was recognized in 1999 by Photo District News as the 1999 Digital Innovator of the Year for his pioneering monochromatic inkjet work for Iris Graphics. His Piezography®BW systems is now revolutionizing traditional darkroom printing just as his IRIS software and archival inks revolutionized the fine art printmaking industry in the 1990s.
Cone personally trained many of the more innovative and well known studios of the 90s including: David Adamson, MuseX Editions, Robert Buckenmeyer's UDC, Jamie Cook, Mike Hunter, Donald Saff's SaffTech, Robert Rauschenberg's Untitled Press and many others. In the late 1990s Cone turned his attention to developing inks and software for and facilitating process and workflow with EPSON® inkjet printers. With Cone's guidance, software and inks, digital printmaking became accessible to the latest generation of digital printmakers. A whole new Black and White generation is successfully using Cone's latest innovative products: Piezography® brand software and inks for EPSON printers.
 "We practice what we teach". Since 1984, Cone Editions Press has been producing some of the most innovative digital photographic projects in the world. Five pivotal exhibitions in 1997/1998 launched inkjet printing into the public's eye as a valid photographic medium. David Humphrey's suite of digital inkjet prints utilizing large format scanning played an important role in "(re) Mediation: The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking" which was the United States winning entry in the prestigious 6th annual Biennial of Graphic Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Washington D.C.'s The Corcoran Gallery of Art launched the Gordon Parks Retrospective, "Half Past Autumn" in 1998, and which is still touring the nation. The color prints were produced at Cone Editions Press with the IRIS Giclée process. Diana Michener's extraordinary "Solitaire" exhibition at Pace MacGill Gallery in 1997 was produced with a one-off IRIS DigitalPlatinum monochromatic process on thin sheets of Japanese hand made Washi paper. Richard Avedon's "In Memory of the Late Mr. and Mrs. Comfort", a fashion portfolio photographed and created for The New Yorker, November 6, 1995 issue was painstakingly reproduced as a limited edition IRIS portfolio in 1997 & 1998 from the original transparencies. The Painted Photograph at the Real Gallery in NYC highlighted several photographic hybrid process from Cone Editions. Bill Jones, editor of ArtByte Magazine wrote the catalogue essay. Many photographers works have been produced by Cone's studio including: Lynne Davis, Barbara Ess, Saul Leiter, Jesse Orosco, and Kiki Smith to name just a few. Cone Editions workshops offer attendees the opportunity to produce their work in the same innovative studio that has been used to realize countless visions, and to learn new skills and foundation from the masters of the digital print medium.
Cone Editions digital printmaking workshops are hands-on and cover a wide range of techniques, equipment and materials. The workshops take place in the studios of Cone Editions Press and offer attendees the unique opportunity to learn workflow and procedures from the masters. These workshops are an excellent opportunity to learn proven workflow in a fully equipped digital printmaking studio immersed in the latest technologies. Come see why Margaret Miller, Director of the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum declared that "Jon Cone is almost the Tamarind of the moment, because he's done so much with the training and adapting of this new medium for printmaking." |
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