Basic Information
Title: Announcement
Artist(s):
Leslie Roberts
Date Created: 2018
Framed Dimensions: 16 x 12 in.
Medium: gouache, graphite, ink, and colored pencil on gessoed panel
Inventory ID: Roberts-2018-01
Description
signed, titled, dated, size, medium, and artist’s notes written on the back of the panel
handwritten text list of announcements from email inbox:
Call for proposals, storage system outage, train service interrupted, invitation to apply
for membership, active shooter training, deadline next week . . .
titled above the image upper left signed, titled, and dated on the back of the panel handwritten text and list of US passport regulations: Excerpt: your photographs must be / two by two inches in size / identical / taken within the last six months / showing current appearance / color or black-and-white/ full […]
signed, titled, dated, size, and medium written on the back of the panel handwritten text: Sentences preceded by “why,” from news reports, email, and other sources. Transcript: Is this happening Did I get this Aren’t people angrier Do you want this job Can’t we sleep Am I writing you Do filmmakers love van Gogh Would […]
title, date, size, medium, and artist’s notes written on the back of the panel handwritten text list of oppositions: True/false, anxious/serene, bizarre/ordinary, positive/uncertain, digital/analog, uptown/downtown, compliant/resistant, rough/gentle, systematic/arbitrary, orderly/disheveled, heavy/light, friend/foe, binary/non-binary . . .
titled above the image upper left signed, and dated on the back of the panel Handwritten text: Signs and ads read during a subway trip Excerpt: Lorimer St, Metropolitan Grand, plan ahead, I was scared silly, local, litter stops here, help point, service exit, apply now, emergency instructions, caution, this area has been baited […]
