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“In a photograph taken in 1972, a young Karen Carson is caught in the process of composing one of the several possible configurations of a large wall piece constructed of zippers and bold triangulate shapes of white and black cloth. She had recently received her M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and, in an auspicious debut, had shown an installation of the Zipper pieces at the Long Beach Museum of Art and a walk-in environmental work at the Brand Library in Glendale.

The Zippers were smart, ambitious work for a recent graduate. Providing viewers the opportunity to make …