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