The exhibition presents work organized around the theme of our shared humanity, with prints touching on the many ways these artists have taken to representing people. The more than two dozen contemporary figurative prints featured in the show were chosen for the diversity of approaches used within the printmaking medium to convey the human figure. Among the prints on display are those by Alison Saar using found vintage handkerchiefs and cotton shop rags while Lesley Dill’s print challenges more traditional expectations of printmaking via a three-dimensional woodcut on muslin incorporating hand-dyed horse hair. In addition to these, the surface of Fab 5 Freddy’s print is embellished with silver glitter. And Swoon’s Sonia combines multiple printing methods with hand painting and collage elements.

An intention behind this exhibition is activating the gallery space by bringing gallery visitors together with the figures in the artworks on display. In juxtaposing such imaginative renderings, these works offer a visual array of alternating perspectives engaging the viewer and provoking them to reconsider their ever-changing viewpoint from one representation to the next. This space will be an open environment for anyone to come and be one among the many.