Self
date: label: Date made
content: 1983
name: label: graphic artist
content: Myers, Frances
notes: label: Description
content: "Self" is a color photocopy incorporating images from an original intaglio print by Frances Myers (b. 1938). In 1982 Myers stumbled upon what she now calls "Copyart" when she began experimenting with a Xerox 6500 Color Copier. Already a printmaker, she used her original etchings and manipulated them with the Xerox machine, changing color, texture, and size, and creating new patterns and shapes.
label: Description
content: "Self," created in 1983, grew out of a collaboration with photographer Marylu Raushenbush. The print shows Myers with her eyes closed lying on a Persian rug and wrapped in a striped bed sheet. A section of that image is repeated horizontally across the very bottom of the composition. Raushenbush photographed her in this position, which Myers then turned into a print. Xerox manipulations produced the replicated, horizontal image and the color distortion. The print is predominantly red and green with patches of gold and silver scattered across the composition.
label: Description
content: This project quickly turned into a series of prints, spurring another change in Myers' work. "Self" and the rest of the series are small in scale, a frustrating limitation, but one that inspired her to search for new processes that would allow her to work larger. She discovered the Xerox 2080 Engineering Printer, which printed on a twenty five foot by twenty four inch roll of vellum. Myers continued to use Raushenbush's photographs to explore this much larger scale.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Portraits
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0034.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0034.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Type
content: xerography
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Prints; Photocopy
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.5 cm x 35 cm; 8 7/16 in x 13 3/4 in