Exhibition · 779 works

Ink, Paper & Impressions

Lines drawn, bitten, pressed, and multiplied across the paper surface.

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Curated by Lupin
A print is an image that remembers the pressure required to exist.
printmaking engraving etching drawing paper

Paper looks fragile until it outlives the hand that marked it. Engraving, etching, woodcut, lithography, and drawing each leave a different account of pressure: cut, bitten, rubbed, transferred, or dragged.

Look closely at the edges of a line. Reproduction is not the absence of an original gesture. In these works it is the method by which the gesture learned to travel.

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Twenty-four representative works balanced across source institutions. Search the full exhibition by title, maker, material, object number, or keyword.

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