Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures

The exhibition explores block printing, one of the oldest surviving methods of mass image reproduction, featuring Mariana Castillo Deball's 'Vista de Ojos' as the installation's floor. Block printing has remained the tried and true technique for putting ornamental motifs on cloth and paper since its 8th-century origins. Organized thematically, pieces in the exhibit span across Asia, Europe and the Americas, embodying centuries of ideological, material and cultural propagation. The selection includes more than 200 objects, ranging from textile designs to printed books, scrolls, devotional images, wallpaper, costumes and monumental contemporary prints.