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Crown Point Press announces the release of new etchings by Odili Donald Odita, who worked at Crown Point during the fall of 2022. During the two-week project the artist explored intaglio for the first time, and completed 15 etchings. Odita chose prints made at Crown Point by John Cage, Jacqueline Humphries, Robert Mangold, Shoichi Ida and Sherrie Levine to accompany his exhibition, Open Veil.

Odita was born in 1966 in Enugu, Nigeria. Shortly after the outbreak of the Biafran War in 1967, he and his family fled the violence targeting the Igbo, their ethnic group, and immigrated to Columbus, …