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On Line: Celebrating Line In Print

The most basic element of drawing is line. A line can be straight or curved, thick or thin, uniform or variable, direct or meandering. Line can be used to describe a form, hatched to create a tone or demark a grid. Line can be expressive or subtle, orderly or erratic. "On Line" presents nineteen prints in which line is the sole or predominant element, and reveals the manifold ways that artists employ line.

For an artist making prints, the image is mediated by the printmaking process: the artist’s marks are made on a matrix that is then inked and …