Movement is the subject of Joan Dix Blair’s “New Prints.” Two distinct groups of prints: the images were inspired by an engraved rock stele (the Rosetta Stone). Blair’s suggested texts are free and modern marks with imagined meanings. Smaller images on the opposite wall could be sketches for ceiling-hung mobiles. A monotype is a unique print. Blair says, “Printmaking involves surfaces, one atop another, made when a plastic or copper plate is pressed into damp paper.” Monotypes are made with overlaid inked plates — while etchings are groups of identical prints, an edition, made with incised plates. Blair’s monotypes invite a kinetic reading…a ticker-tape parade, or, the children’s game of pick-up sticks. Of the two groups, one was printed with stencils, the other was painted directly onto the plates.
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