Opening Day Talk: David S. Areford

Join guest curator David Areford as he explores the prints of American artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). When LeWitt began pursuing printmaking in 1970, he quickly homed in on the medium’s inherent technical and mechanical properties that best served his approach to conceptual art. Two print-specific characteristics were especially productive —reversal and rotation. LeWitt employed these strategically to achieve a range of meanings and effects, from clever references to Italian Renaissance art to dynamic activations of pictorial space.