Focusing on Hockney’s works on paper, this book encompasses a wide array of image making techniques— from lithography and photo-collage to iPad drawings and photo-drawings. Hockney is renowned for marrying visual simplicity with emotional sophistication in his art, and this exhibition seeks to index the atmospheres suggested in this body of work. The works in Paper Trails are curated through affective-atmospheric groupings that articulate the range of emotional resonance and world-building seen in Hockney’s artistic practice. This approach both underscores Hockney’s technical versatility and his capacity to engage viewers in a visual dance of emotions and environment. Paper Trails invites audiences to familiarize themselves with the wide range of Hockney’s art, as it bridges disparate affective registers, speaking to the thematic expansiveness and emotive mastery of his practice.
