Sight Seeing

In the fall of 2000 I spent six weeks in Montréal. As I explored the city I made drawings, knowing that I would have the opportunity to use the drawings in photocopy prints. I developed my drawings into copy art at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) in California, where I was an artist-in-residence from December 200 to April 2001. In 2003, after a period of making art based on other subjects, I returned to my Montréal imagery and collaged my photocopy prints into the large works shown here. My show Sight-Seeing was exhibited at the Willard Gallery at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, in 2004, and then, with some new additions, in 2005 at La Maison de la Culture, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montréal, a city run non-profit gallery. Showing the work in Montréal was especially interesting because many of the drawings in the artwork were from the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood. There were 24 pieces of artwork in the Montréal show.

All the works in Sight-Seeing are Xerox photocopy on Xerox acid-free Cassatt paper. The quilt sized pieces are backed by acid-free glassine; they hang like curtains from hidden lightweight hanging bars.

After the photos of the large works, there are photos of related smaller images. The last picture is of a “rondel” made for one time use on a window in the Kansas gallery. It was a photocopy oiled to make the paper translucent.