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Philadelphia Daily News - January 29, 2010

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Printmaking is not just that lithograph hanging on your wall anymore. It's how Pepon Osorio, a Philadelphia installation artist, professor at Temple’s Tyler School of Art and winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, ponders his mother's mortality in a 12-foot-square bed of mostly black confetti on which he prints a blue X-ray of her skull with an ink-jet printer. This cutting-edge art can be seen today through April 11 at PHILAGRAfiKA 2010, an inaugural international festival, five years in the making, which celebrates the role of the print in contemporary art.