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Traveling Suitcase Installation Project on Stage at Teatro Marinoni
Woodcut print on Masa paper
Unfolded Dimensions: 129 inches x 129 inches, 2015
The Traveling Suitcase Installation Project is a large-scale print work that folds into a suitcase and reanimates into a sculptural installation. Designed to be mutable, the shape-shifting installation takes on variable configurations, thereby allowing the piece to take a new form each time it is displayed. But the real magic happened as the piece traveled across Europe engaging with new art communities and spaces.
Traveling Suitcase Installation Project at WerkStadt Berlin
Woodcut print on Masa paper
Unfolded Dimensions: 129 inches x 129 inches, 2015
In this image Frida looks up at the first configuration of the installation at WerkStadt gallery. WerkStadt is an artist collective, union, gallery and meeting space in Neukoln, Berlin.
Palast (after Tacita Dean for Lorraine)
Woodcut Print on Masa paper
Four pieces 20’8” x 43” each, 2013
Installation views of Atrium Gallery at Tyler School of Art. This piece is a visual translation of an essay written by my sister Lorraine Affourtit while in pursuit of her doctorate of at UC Santa Cruz. Lorraine's reading of Deleuze through Tacita Dean's Berlin Works in order to elucidate expanded concepts of temporality and the Crystal Image, formed the textual scaffolding for the work.
Palast (after Tacita Dean for Lorraine) - detail view
Woodcut Print on Masa paper
Four pieces 20’8” x 43” each, 2013
Fagiano - Test Installations with Biennale Urbana
Relief print on Masa (double sided)
Unfolded Dimensions: 168 inches x 84 inches, 2017
Installed in relationship to the architecture of an abandoned military structure on an island in the Venetian lagoon, as part of the residency with Biennale Urbana in Venice Italy. From this side you can see the muted color of the printed imagery seeping through the pencil rubbing where the light hits the other side of the piece.
Fagiano - Installation detail
Relief print on Masa (double sided)
Unfolded Dimensions: 168 inches x 84 inches, 2017
Installation at Caserma Pepe as part of the residency “Eye of the Beholder.” From this side the saturated color of the woodblock prints is most visible.
Fagiano - detail view
Relief print on Masa (double sided)
Unfolded Dimensions: 168 inches x 84 inches, 2017
Prelude in Echo, In collaboration with Heather Rikic
Woodcut print on Masa as performance partner
Print dimensions: 43 x 96 inches, 2019
Still from performance at Galerija Polet, Belgrade Serbia. Prelude in Echo is a mutable improvisational duet with dancer/choreographer Heather Rikic and a large-scale sculptural woodcut print. Original score composed by Damjan Jovicin.
Prelude in Echo, In collaboration with Heather Rikic
Woodcut print on Masa as performance partner
Print dimensions: 43 x 96 inches, 2019
Stills from performance at Magacin Cultural Center, Belgrade Serbia. Prelude in Echo is a mutable improvisational duet with dancer/choreographer Heather Rikic and a large-scale sculptural woodcut print. Original score composed by Damjan Jovicin.
Cliff Form Tests
Drypoint and Monotype on Fabriano
7 x 5 inches each, 2016
Part of a series of works produced during a residency at Hospitalfield in Arbroath Scotland.
Notations II
Woodcut prints collaged on board
10 x 8 x 1 inches each, 2014
These works are notations for expanded research into building both physical and illusionary forms with paper.
The Shrinking Umbrella of my Confidence
Woodcut prints and Letterpress on Rives BFK
8 x 8.5 x .5 inches, 2011
This artist book was produced in collaboration with the Experimental Printmaking Workshop in Easton, PA. The book contains nine original woodcut prints and three pages of letterpress text, including a short fiction by Lorraine J. Affourtit titled “no memory of where it began.”
Refraction (left) and Lexical Gap (right)
Woodcut prints mounted on Canvas
2013
From an exhibition at Temple Gallery Rome titled “Dig Out the Moon.”
Shelter Sculptures
Glazed Terracotta
4 x 4 x 4 inches, 2014
These sculptures are part of a series of ceramic works composed of woodcarvings "printed" in clay.
Shelter Sculptures
Glazed Terracotta
4 x 4 x 4 inches; 4 x 4 x 5 inches,2014
These sculptures are part of a series of ceramic works composed of woodcarvings "printed" in clay.
Untitled (Industrial Arm of Oakland)
Woodcut print on Usuyo + Found Objects
Dimensions variable, 2015
Two views of an experimental installation created at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. The cardboard stacks of cylinders that I found in the trash are holding the 20 ft. length of printed paper to the wall. This work is part of my experiments with the structure and sculptural potentials of paper, while also considering simpler and more integral strategies for displaying/presenting works on paper.
Totem
100 Woodcut prints mounted on canvas
Installation dimensions variable, 2013
Installation View: Kent State Galleries. The shapes and hieroglyphs reappear like an echo, creating a cadence like pattern that resembles the arrangement of pictographic texts. Rendering the images in woodblocks allowed me to repeat forms while shifting details, mimicking the call and response of a poetic refrain.
Totem #13
Woodcut print on Masa mounted on canvas
16 x 16 x 1.5 inches, 2013
One piece from a set of 100 that make the installation Totem. Drawing inspiration from Ojibway scholar, Basil H. Johnson’s, translation of the concept of Totem; “that form from which I draw my meaning, purpose and being,” I created a series of hieroglyphs that represent the fragments of the psyche.
Cusp
Color woodcut and Monoprint on Fabriano
3 feet 7 inches x 5 feet, 2011
From a series of prints developed at the Venice Printmaking Studio Residency.
TSIP with Collective Magpie
Woodcut Print on Masa paper; inflatable atelier
Installation dimensions variable, 2015
Collaborating with the artist duo Collective Magpie, the Traveling Suitcase Installation Project was exhibited inside of an inflatable domed pavilion titled Nomadic Atelier, at Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar. This project collaboration was exhibited in tandem with the course Performance of the Pavilion, led by Collective Magpie at Bauhaus-Universität Summer School.