Vermillion Editions Limited: Prints, Multiples, Artists’ Books, 1977–1992

If the Highpoint Center for Printmaking is one of best-kept secrets in the Twin Cities art world, then its predecessor, Vermillion Editions, is—or was, until this exhibition—all but lost in the mists of time. Printer Steven M. Andersen set up shop in the Minneapolis warehouse district in 1977, and over the following fifteen years, Vermillion became known as the kind of place where artists could push boundaries in printmaking. Red Grooms, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Sorman, James Rosenquist, Nicolas Africano, T. L. Solien, and dozens of others came to work with master printers, and the MIA, always thinking ahead, established its Vermillion Editions Archival Collection well before the studio closed. This exhibition is drawn from that collection and highlights some of Vermillion’s most noteworthy achievements. 612-870-3131; artsmia.org