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Flip Sides:
Representations / Abstractions from the 1970s

Lawrence Hall
August 31 - December 11, 2009

Bringing together lithographs by Sam Gilliam and William Wiley with photo offset lithographs by Joan Lyons, Scott Hyde, and others this installation explores tendencies in avant-garde printmaking in the early 1970s. While some artists manipulated photo-based prints to obliterate details and introduce abstract elements, others discovered representational qualities in the textures of paint, paper, and other materials. Both groups present a fresh, intensely personal experience of the world.