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Locks Gallery is pleased to present a selection of prints from the 1960s and 1970s by Philadelphia artist Edna Andrade (1917-2008). Andrade was an early leader of the Op Art movement, a lifelong teacher and steadfast supporter of the arts in her community. She embraced the notion that art could be universal in that it should change and challenge how we experience the visual world. In her print-making, Andrade worked in the process of screenprinting “whose characteristic flatness and crisp, fine lines made the medium the perfect choice for her designs” (Essay by John Caperton in Color Motion: …