Early Works 1988-91

This is a series of earlier, figurative works, produced in Vancouver at Malaspina Printmakers and UBC, focusing on gender performance; bodily gesture and inferred ‘language’; and issues related to privacy, purity, and whiteness.

(0.) Women in History – woodcut, 1988


(0A) Apology #1 – etching, 1988


(OB) Parable Language: Fear of Water – etching, 1989


(0C) Apologist – woodcut, 1988


(1) Parable Language 4: Impersonation – woodcut, 1989


(1B) Parable Language 4: Impersonation (detail) – woodcut, 1989


(1C) Apologist #2 (study) – gouache & spray paint on paper,1989


(1D) Apologist #2 – woodcut, 1989


(1E) Installation View (Ace Art Gallery) – Study Drawings & Printing Plates, 1990


(4) Private Language: Without Tongues (wall drawing, detail) – 1989


(4B) Private Language: Without Tongues (wall drawing, detail 2) – 1989


(5) Private Language: Without Tongues (wall drawing, detail 3) – 1989


(5B) Private Language: Without Tongues (State 2, wall drawing, detail) – 1989


(6) Private Language: Tightrope Walker – woodcut, 1989


(6B) Private Language 4 – woodcut, 1989


(7) Theatrum Mundi (1st view) – graphite and oil stick on paper with video monitor, 1990


(7B) Theatrum Mundi (2nd view) – graphite and oil stick on paper with video monitor, 1990


(7C) Theatrum Mundi (3rd view) – graphite and oil stick on paper with video monitor and curtain, 1990


(7D) Blue Period – graphite on paper with video monitor, 1991


(7E) Installation View (Theatre setting) – drawings with video monitors, 1991


(8) Separate Rumours – woodcut, 1990