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Although Kiki Smith is best known for her sculpture, printmaking has been an important part of her work since the mid-1980s. Just as she expanded the scope of contemporary sculpture with a prolific body of intensely personal work expressed through a variety of media, Smith has stretched the realm of printmaking with her highly creative and unconventional approach to the medium. Smith counts among her influences animals and natural phenomena, art history and visual culture around the world, and artists from the generation preceding her鈥攕uch as Eva Hesse, Nancy Spero, and Jasper Johns. Certainly, she shares with Johns a passion for the infinite possibilities of printmaking. Another influence has been her Catholic upbringing, which she has mined for female role models, and her work addresses the collective themes of death and mortality, birth and regeneration. The dozen works in this exhibition, on loan from a private collector, range from a print Smith began in 1985 to those dating from the last several years. The remarkable range of her inventiveness in various forms of printmaking is also well represented: linoleum cuts, etching, aquatint, lithograph, and photogravure.