+ Currency Part 1 - University of Alabama at Birmingham

Introduction
Currency Part 1: Modes of Expression and Currency Part 2: Means of Exchange are exhibitions
driven by a spirit of collaboration and the desire to critically interrogate contemporary printmaking
practices, To give credit where it is due, the initial impetus for the exhibition came from Professor
Derek Cracco at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His commitment to contemporary
printmaking and his belief that we had an obligation to explore these practices led to the two
projects that comprise the series.
Currency Part 1: Modes of Expression is positioned by both abstraction and the interrogation of
media. Currency Part 2: Means of Exchange, which will be explored in a separate publication,
considers the roles that contemporary print practices have in mediating our expriences of the
world through the examination and interpretation of currency itself.
These exhibitions highlight our commitment to the UAB Visual Arts Gallery and Artlab’s ongoing
focus on contemporary practices that have the potential to change the ways we look at the world,.
Brett Levine
Director, Artlab/The Visual Arts Gallery