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Exhibition Introduction

Note to the ReaderAcknowledgments

IntroductionKeithJohnLeslieSelf-Portrait

IntroductionTouched RedGreenCombinationHigh Green Version 1

Introduction17 Drawings by ThoreauSeven Day Diary (Not Knowing)Changes and DisappearancesWhere R=RyoanjiFireThe Missing Stone 75 StonesEninkaStonesWhere There is Where There

IntroductionAnne ApplebyPia FriesDarren AlmondSusan MiddletonJoel FisherBrad BrownTom Marioni

IntroductionMamma AnderssonSol LeWittFred WilsonRobert BechtleKiki Smith

IntroductionJulie MehretuWayne ThiebaudJockum NordströmTomma AbtsNathan OliveiraChris Ofili

IntroductionPat SteirLaura OwensWayne ThiebaudAmy Sillman

# Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith, Home, 2006
*Home*(working proof 1)2006etching in blackplate: 20 × 25 (50.8 × 63.2)sheet: 24 3⁄4 × 29 1⁄8 (62.9 × 74)Crown Point Press© Kiki Smith, Courtesy Pace Gallery

Kiki Smith, Home, 2006
*Home*(working proof 5)2006etching and spitbite aquatint in blackplate: 20 × 25 (50.8 × 63.2)sheet: 25 × 29 1⁄4 (63.5 × 74.3)Crown Point Press© Kiki Smith, Courtesy Pace Gallery

Kiki Smith, Home, 2006
*Home*(working proof 11)2006color spitbite aquatint, aquatint, etching, softgroundetching, and drypoint with chine colléplate: 20 × 25 (50.8 × 63.2)sheet: 24 3⁄4 × 29 1⁄8 (62.9 × 74)Crown Point Press© Kiki Smith, Courtesy Pace Gallery

Kiki Smith, Home, 2006
*Home*2006color spitbite aquatint, flatbite etching, etching,softground etching, and drypoint with chine colléplate: 20 × 25 (50.8 × 63.2)sheet: 26 1⁄2 × 31 (67.3 × 78.7)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Kathan Brown,2011© Kiki Smith, Courtesy Pace Gallery

This print depicts a homeless person’s feet extending from a cardboard box. Working from a photograph, Smith began by drawing an image onto a copperplate, then adding tone and color. She envisioned an iridescent effect at the bottom of the image, like “rainbows [in] oil slicks,” but deemed the first attempt unsatisfactory (see slideshow, above). The printer suggested flipping the copperplate over and printing the random, etched pits that appeared on the back, which produced the effect in the final print that Smith was after (see banner, above).

Kiki Smith working with a source photograph on *Home* at Crown Point Press, 2006, photograph by Kathan Brown, Courtesy Crown Point Press

Banner image: Detail, Mamma Andersson, *Room Under the Influence*, 2008, color spitbite aquatint, sugarlift aquatint, aquatint, and softground etching,  Gift of Kathan Brown, Crown Point Press, © Mamma Andersson

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"Yes, No, Maybe: The Art of Making Decisions," lecture by exhibition curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)Julie Mehretu, artist, in conversation with curator Judith Brodie, Diamonstein-Spielvogel lecture (audio)"An Insider's Perspective," lecture by Kathan Brown, founder of Crown Point Press (audio)

Exhibition tour by curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)

Kiki Smith in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

Crown Point Press prints in the collection of the National Gallery of Art

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