Installation

We installed the prints on September 5, a Sunday. Everyone got sick on the planned install day, so the whole family came as an installation team.

I saw the case before I made the work. As I got into reading the Archive, the work evolved as site specific drawings: about the Chicago Artists' Archive and in the Chicago Public Library. The 8th floor north case has rotating exhibits curated by the Visual Arts curator, Leslie Patterson. It is a large case with glass that reflects the many, many hanging fixtures in the hallway. 

The prints needed to be large and bold to compete with that reflection and draw viewers down the hallway. I even tried using photographs of the fixtures in the drawings. I am sure they influenced the content of the drawings: and I don't mind the way the two things interact in the final installation.

The pieces also picked up the palette of the library.

8th floor hallway with Jeanne Dunning print (north case at rear)

installing horizontal descent in north case

 Thanks to Roger, who curates and installs the exhibitions in the Performing Arts case at the opposite end of the hallway. He did the lighting and developed the hanging system for the case.