My exhibition Taxing Times opened at the Handwerker Gallery, at Ithaca College on March 17. I was
there last week to give a talk. The link that holds all the work together is
the fact that all the work has relationship to tax paying. There are drawings from
the earlier Tax-–onomies series.
where I made drawings documenting how tax money is spent. There is also the
Antarctica work, where the expedition was paid for by tax dollars through the
National Science Foundation’s Antarctica Artist and Writer’s Program.
In addition there is one new work made especially
for the exhibition. Missing or Sold was made
in response to a request from gallery director Mara Baldwin to document the college’s
missing work. In October, during Ithaca
College’s parent weekend, gallery
attendees were handed a registrar's folder that contained a description and
sometimes a photo of a piece of art that went missing or was sold from the
college's collection (in the 80's ) when the college art museum was sold. The
parents, siblings, students, and faculty then made a color pencil drawing on. 4
x 6" card. I redrew all of the 300 drawings on a ghost image of the sold
museum building (Boardman House.) the gallery director then made a poster from
my drawing so the collection lives on.
