In a slight departure from his well-known freehand abstractions, James Siena embarked on a project of 3 large-scale prints with Island Press in fall 2012 that involved careful measuring and very precise edges, utilizing student helpers from the Printmaking program at the Sam Fox School to cut humanly perfect arrows from book board and PVC. The images refer overtly to commercial signage, but play both visually and metaphorically with opposition and nonconformity as is conveyed in the title of this group of prints: Underdogs.