“New Ink,” an exhibit featuring recent works by all 32 members of Peregrine Press, opens Friday at Engine, located at 265 Main St. in Biddeford.

The exhibit includes more than 100 prints and features a diverse range of printmaking techniques from chine collé to monoprint to intaglio, also known as etching. It will also include a special assortment of recent works by Deedee Schwartz, a beloved member of Peregrine Press and a noted Maine artist who died this month.

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“Biding My Time” by Deedee Schwartz, chine collé, woodcuts with Chinese funeral “money” and antique dress pattern paper.

Jeff Woodbury’s etching “Every Principal Highway Within 75 Miles of Manhattan.”

“New Ink” will open during the Biddeford and Saco Art Walk and will run through April 19.

Peregrine Press, located in Portland, is one of the oldest printmaking cooperatives in New England. It was founded in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood in 1991 by a small group of artists looking to share equipment and space. To date they have produced two boxed portfolios, which are currently in the permanent collections of the Portland Museum of Art, University of New England, New York Public Library, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum and Colby College Museum of Art.

Engine is home to the Maine FabLab in addition to running at contemporary gallery space on Main Street in Biddeford. The gallery is open from 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

For more information about the artists, go to peregrinepress.com. For more information about the exhibit, call 370-9130 or go to feedtheengine.org.

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