mezzotint

With its potential for fine shading, fluidity of line and exacting detail, the mezzotint rivals the most intricate pencil, ink or charcoal drawing.

Though the heart of her work — graphite and charcoal drawings, mezzotint and woodcut prints, paintings — is often described as dark, it has always been backlighted, in a sense, by California sun.

The clearest images are in a set of 1710 mezzotints, “The Four Indian Kings,” by the British printmaker John Simon.

Seattle’s Daniel Carrillo, best known for his faux-vintage photographs, has just one piece in the show — a mezzotint and engraving titled “Couple” — but it’s a doozy.

The same year, it bought his mezzotint “Reflections,” a scene of boaters in Central Park with the buildings of Fifth Avenue in the background.