Sets: Printed Variations

press release: Drawing from the Chazen Museum of Art's impressive permanent collection, Sets: Printed Variations features work from Warrington Colescott, Josef Albers, and others in a Garfield Gallery exhibition of serial prints May 26–August 20, 2017, at the Chazen.

Series of prints have long been used to tell stories, each print a different scene in a tale. Sometimes sets of prints convey a group of parallel ideas without a narrative, like the seven virtues, the four seasons, or the Seven Wonders of the World. In the twentieth century, the print set became more open ended, exploring variations on a theme. This exhibition presents sets in their entirety as their artists originally intended, allowing viewers the full effect of these multi-part works of art.