The Consciousness of a Feminist Expressionist.

For many painters, prints serve as a place to try out new ideas, experiment in a different medium or circulate their images in a reproducible format, while earning some extra money. Sometimes, however, a print exhibition can feel like a vital key to an artist's career. Such is the case with ''Dancing With the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010'' at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick. Ms. Snyder is most often described as an Expressionist and a feminist. Artists generally don't like being summed up by ''isms'' (who would?), but ''Dancing With the Dark'' underscores rather than challenges this formulation. And Ms. Snyder doesn't dispute these designations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]