A Little Off the Grid by Angela Pilgrim. Published by Du-Good Press, 2025.
A Little Off the Grid By Angela Pilgrim 30 x 20 inch 12 Color Screenprint on 320gsm Coventry Rag with Deckled Edge Variable Edition of 28 Published by Du-Good Press, 2025. Available through Du-Good Press: du-goodpress.com/angelapilgrim
Through its formal strategies and material references, A Little Off the Grid considers how everyday objects operate as vessels of lived experience, cultural memory, and inherited knowledge. The interplay of netting, grid structures, and organic textures articulates the blurred boundaries between interior and exterior worlds, mirroring the ways in which Black diasporic identities continuously negotiate the dualities of visibility and erasure, constraint and agency. The work ultimately reflects a state of becoming, where resilience, vulnerability, and power are understood not as static conditions, but as fluid responses shaped by historical, spatial, and personal contexts.
About the Edition
Based on a collage by Angela Pilgrim, this variable edition employs both double exposure and split fountain techniques. Over the course of a few sessions, Pilgrim brought and exposed materials from her studio along with local soil, synthetic hair, and cheesecloth onto screens. These were printed onto and within colorblocks around a portrait of the artist.
Each print is unique due to multiple colors being printed at once in the blue-violet and yellow-orange layers (split fountain). Additionally, Pilgrim painted color onto the screen transferring painterly marks which trailed off and transformed successive prints. A final transparent metallic silver flattens and bridges the divide between photography and handmade.
On Publishing the Edition
“In March 2025, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Du-Good Press, the first Black woman-owned fine art screen printing studio in New York, founded by master printer Leslie Diuguid. Over the course of the month, we developed a variable edition that merged experimental process with personal materials from my studio practice.
Working with Leslie was deeply meaningful, not just as a fellow Black woman in print, but as someone with an exceptional eye for technical precision and innovation. Her command of experimental techniques like double exposure and the ability to burn found materials directly onto screens allowed this print to evolve in ways I hadn’t imagined. The print debuted at the Brooklyn Print Fair to an enthusiastic audience, and the collaboration stands as a highlight in my practice, an offering rooted in experimentation, shared vision, and legacy-building through print.” —Angela P.
