Jerome Kaplan gradually broke with traditional canons of printmaking, particularly the production of editioned lithographs, to explore more private realms of artistic expression. Magnifying the autobiographical preoccupations of his earlier work, Kaplan's art became increasingly introspective beginning in the mid-1980s. At the same time, his experimentalism consistently challenged accepted notions of finish. It is this powerful fascination with manipulating materials that links his complex, semi-photographic cliché verre—or "glass print technique"—of the 1970s with his expressionistic monotypes and mixed-media drawings.
_{—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records}