Notations 1982

Notations 1982During 1982 William Brice completed a series of brilliantly colored drawings on four by six inch notecards. Subsequently he mounted forty eight of these drawings in a notebook in order that he might later refer to them for compositional detail in his large scale paintings. Notations 1982 reproduces Brice's notebook in full color and to scale. The forty eight drawings are reproduced just as the artist composed them in his original notebook. By working

Accompanying every portrait is a text written by the operator on some aspect of his or her experience

Failing often exists in darkness but is tuned to grace

The increasing devastation of the AIDS crisis through the eighties profoundly and irrevocably transformed his life and work

Malerie Marder became aware of the extremely diverse population of women who support themselves and their families through legal prostitution

England and the United States

Grammy told me to go back inside

and costumes

A swooping hook of land that curves down to the water

exhibition history and a listing of the artist's paintings in public collections are included

Twelve Acres recalls boyhood outside of city limits

Unspeaking Likeness is a series of images of forensic facial reconstruction sculptures

30 four-color plates