Fax Dawings

Fax Drawing: #9 (Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris), 2011, Paint on wall, 86.5 x 61 inches. Installation at Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris.

Fax Drawing: #9 (Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris), 2011, Paint on wall, 86.5 x 61 inches. Installation at Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris.

Fax Drawing: #2 (Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads, Santa Monica, Ca.), 2007, Pen and acrylic on wall, 96 x 110 inches. Installation at Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads, Santa Monica, Ca.

Fax Drawing: #2 (Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads, Santa Monica, Ca.), 2007, Pen and acrylic on wall, 96 x 110 inches. Installation at Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads, Santa Monica, Ca.

E-Mail Drawings: #1 (Art Affairs, Amsterdam) 2011, Acrylic paint, ink and pencil on wall. Installation at Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

E-Mail Drawings: #1 (Art Affairs, Amsterdam) 2011, Acrylic paint, ink and pencil on wall. Installation at Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Fax Drawing: #1 (Jail Gallery), 2007, pen, oil stick, and soft pastel on wall, 80 x 105 inches. Installation at Jail Gallery

Fax Drawing: #1 (Jail Gallery), 2007, pen, oil stick, and soft pastel on wall, 80 x 105 inches. Installation at Jail Gallery

Fax Drawing: #5 (X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly Artist Project [Summer 2009])

Fax Drawing: #5 (X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly Artist Project [Summer 2009])

Fax Drawing: #6 (X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly Artist Project [Summer 2009])

Fax Drawing: #6 (X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly Artist Project [Summer 2009])

Fax Drawing: #7 (X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly Artist Project [Summer 2009])

Fax Drawing: #7 (X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly Artist Project [Summer 2009])

Fax Drawing: #8 (X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly Artist Project [Summer 2009])

Fax Drawing: #8 (X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly Artist Project [Summer 2009])

Tell Me Something Good, detail of Rita's realization of Kim's instructions, 2009, Installation with photos, record, and drawing on door blank, dimensions variable.

Tell Me Something Good, detail of Rita's realization of Kim's instructions, 2009, Installation with photos, record, and drawing on door blank, dimensions variable.

Fax Drawing: #8 (Second Room, Belgium) 2008, paint on wall, 75 x 58 inches. Installation view at Second Room, Belgium

Fax Drawing: #8 (Second Room, Belgium) 2008, paint on wall, 75 x 58 inches. Installation view at Second Room, Belgium

E-mail Drawings: #4 (Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal [Odd Lots Variation]), 2011, House paint and pen on paper, shaped, 14 x 11 inches.

E-mail Drawings: #4 (Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal [Odd Lots Variation]), 2011, House paint and pen on paper, shaped, 14 x 11 inches.

E-mail Drawings: #2 (Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal [variation #2]), 2011, Archival ink-jet print on paper with ink, 24 x 19 inches.

E-mail Drawings: #2 (Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal [variation #2]), 2011, Archival ink-jet print on paper with ink, 24 x 19 inches.

E-mail Drawings: #6 (Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal [Redaction Series Variation]), 2011, House paint and pen on paper, 14 x 11 inches.

E-mail Drawings: #6 (Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal [Redaction Series Variation]), 2011, House paint and pen on paper, 14 x 11 inches.

Fax Drawing: #10 (Salt Lake Art Center, Utah) 2011, Pen and acrylic paint on wall. Installation at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT.

Fax Drawing: #10 (Salt Lake Art Center, Utah) 2011, Pen and acrylic paint on wall. Installation at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT.

The fax drawing series started when I accidentally loaded the paper the wrong way in my fax machine. I was using recycled Xeroxes of drawings for fax paper and had asked a gallery to send floor plans to prepare for an installation. The result was a combination of the drawing and floorplan. The fax drawings use all the information on the page, which includes fax number, date, pages, etc. The only choice I make is regarding color.

Throughout the years the series has been realized in different forms, some wall drawings, some works on paper and one magazine project. When Fax Machines stopped being a way of communication, the series became E-Mail Drawings but the process was the same- I still use recycled paper and I still accidentally load it incorrectly. Normally, I translate the new drawings into large-scale wall pieces exhibited in the space that the floor plans depict. For the X-TRA artist’s project, I utilized four pages of in-progress design layouts faxed to me by the editors.

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