Abstractly granular

“Sylvia (Spring, Rocks, and Daffodils)” (acrylic paint over aquatint, with scraping, printed in dark-gray ink on wove paper) in the show “Altered States: The Etchings of Richard Pousette-Dart,’’ at the New Britain (Conn.)Museum of American Art, through next April 26.

The museum says:

“First-generation Abstract Expressionist artist Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) excelled in a wide variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. In 1979, he embarked on an extraordinary foray into printmaking, afforded by the opportunity to work with traditional etching techniques and tools at the Rockland Foundation, near his home and studio in Suffern, New York. By this time, his dense and complex abstract compositions of the 1940s and 1950s had transitioned to all-over fields composed of small gestures and marks, often organized around a central geometric or organic shape.’’