Ink, Paper, Stone: Six Women Artists and the Language of Lithography examines the prints of six critically acclaimed artists who visited Los Angeles in the 1960s to explore the art of lithography: Ruth Asawa, Gego, Eleanore Mikus, Louise Nevelson, Irene Siegel and Hedda Sterne. Each woman received a two-month fellowship at the famed Tamarind Lithography Workshop, founded by the visionary printmaker June Wayne in 1960.

These six distinct artists shared an interest in the physical properties of their materials, including ink and paper, which they exploited to convey a sense of the artist’s own hand in the process of making an image.

Describing her folded paper drawings from this period, Eleanore Mikus advised viewers to pay close attention, for “the more you look, the more you see.”

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