COLLAGES WITH DIGITAL PRINTS

In the late 1990’s, computer technology had advanced enough that digital color printing was available to everyone. I could create, repeat, or reproduce a digital image on canvas that went through my printer. Working in layers, I translated images into paintings that incorporated repeats. In some pieces, I combined printing on canvas as a collage element within the painting

During this period, I wrote some proposals for mosaic murals to be installed on Subway Stations. I began to think in terms of units and made many digital prints for this proposal. This prompted me to use these images in my paintings. The compositions are based on a single unit of a computer generated image. At this time, it was only possible to create images that were small - few pixels. The lines in the digital prints appear pixelated - like the stroke of a paint brush. This worked for me.

I made several collages using digital prints in repetition. They are comparable to working drawings and are not finished pieces. At the same time, my paintings were echoing this interest and were painted versions of some of these collages. I called them repeats. Both the paintings, collages and single units are included here.