SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.- The diverse range of styles and viewpoints of over 20 contemporary artists will be showcased in Photo Image in American Prints 1968–1998. This exhibition of 30 prints and books explores the use of photographic imagery in creative printmaking, from Andy Warhol’s screenprints of the 1960s, which utilized imagery borrowed from mass media, to Kiki Smith’s 1996 photogravure, My Blue Lake, in which the artist used a peripheral camera to create her self-portrait. The majority of works in the exhibition are selected from the Crown Point Press Archive and the Anderson Graphic Arts Collection.

American painters, sculptors, and conceptual artists, with a few exceptions such as Richard Hamilton and Jannis Kounellis, are the focus of the exhibition. Among the other artists whose work will be on view are Jasper Johns, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Christopher Brown, Tom Marioni, Gay Outlaw, and Ed Ruscha.

Also included in the exhibition are hand-drawn prints by Robert Bechtle, Vija Clemins, and Chuck Close. Although these images are inspired by photographic images and despite their distinctly photographic look, these works do not involve

the actual use of photographs.