Krishna Reddy: Heaven in a Wildflower

January 23, 2025 – May 21, 2025
Print Center New York

535 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011

Krishna Reddy, Water Lilies (1959). Mixed color intaglio.

Krishna Reddy, Water Lilies (1959). Mixed color intaglio.

Krishna Reddy: Heaven in a Wildflower is the first monographic exhibition in New York on the late Indian artist Krishna Reddy in over 40 years. The exhibition is curated by Sarah Burney in collaboration with an advisory committee of Reddy’s close colleagues and will run from January 23–May 21, 2025 in Print Center New York’s Jordan Schnitzer Gallery. Heaven in a Wildflower brings together over 50 prints alongside key sculptures, ephemera, and working materials on loan from the artist’s estate in order to demonstrate Reddy’s material and conceptual approach to the groundbreaking viscosity printmaking technique he developed in the 1950s and 60s.

Krishna Reddy (1925–2018) is best known as a master intaglio printmaker who was instrumental in developing a process called viscosity printing, which allows an artist to print a multi-colored image from a single printing plate. Krishna Reddy: Heaven in a Wildflower highlights this innovation by considering the philosophical underpinnings of the artist’s kaleidoscopic art and inventive approach to his creative practice.