David Hockney's art is deceiving; on one hand, it presents the most humble aspects of daily life - a pet dog asleep, a friend in conversation. On the other hand, it manipulates such quotidian subjects in ways that challenge the viewer to see the world–and art, too–from a multitude of new perspectives. While Hockney's photo-collages, homemade prints, and inkjet prints included in the exhibition explore new avenues of representations, it is the way the artist exploits various media for his own expressive ends that makes this body of work of enduring value. No material could better justify what the artist has recently chosen to investigate, namely how artists of the past, from Caravaggio to Ingres, utilized optical tools such as the camera lucida to capture the fleeting appearance of the posed model. Such discoveries provide eloquent testimony to the artist's insatiable curiosity as well as his visual acuity as an interpreter of the information age in paint without equal.