17 Books: Part Two

Corinna

The drawings for the Luciano books, The Woman Who Liked to Play Dress Up, and Jenny Yim were made years before I made the books.  Secret was the book of self portrait drawings done off and on over these years. 

All of the drawings for these first dozen books were made between 1995 and 2000. 

Corinna, an actress friend whom I had been drawing in 2003, was in rehearsal for The Crucible.  Corinna was familiar with the work I’d been doing and invited me to photograph the rehearsals. The sequence of photographs I made eventually became a book titled Ensemble.

I continued to draw Corinna and also Kate, another of the actors. The drawings of Corinna were primarily of her head and hands.  Portraits, not definitive portraits but shifting moments of Corinna.  The drawings of Kate, were similarly, multiple portraits of her head and hands.

Kate

Naomi Eleven Days

Secret

Naomi was a sad, beautiful woman who briefly sat for me for drawings, often with her head lain on her folded arms.

Drawing Without Glasses is exactly that -- drawings I made without the aid of my glasses.   The progression of images is somewhat comical as I mug for the mirror.

The drawings for Corinna, Kate, Naomi Eleven Days and Drawing Without Glasses were made between 2003 and 2008.

Drawing Without Glasses

Each of the 17 Books is made in an edition of 10. 6.125 x 6.125 inches. Archival ink jet prints on epson paper, 1 ply museum board covers, paper jacket. 2011.

The original drawings in each of the 17 books are made as unique books. 12.5 x 12.5 inches. Brush and sumi ink and cream gouache drawings on basinwerk paper mounted in stonehenge paper books with stonehenge paper cover.

Corinna 2003 / 2011 Kate 2003 / 2011 Naomi Eleven Days 2008 / 2011 Secret 1997-98 / 2011 Drawing Without Glasses 2008 / 2011