Vija Celmins: Prints 1983 to 1985 presents key works from an especially generative moment in Celmins's career, including ocean prints cropped to eliminate shore and horizon, the Concentric Bearings series combining multiple printing plates into provocative juxtapositions of night skies, airplanes, and Duchamp sculpture, and Strata (1983), which assembles twenty-five copper plates into a densely packed field of stars ranging from miniscule dots to glowing circles. Working across engraving, drypoint, mezzotint, and aquatint, Celmins pursues what she calls "impossible images — too big, spaces unbound."
