Gary Day-Printmaker

"The Picture Show, presenting Nebraska artists in the permanent collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska."

[NARRATOR] "When The Bells Stop Ringing exhibited at Sheldon Gallery is by Gary Day. The work is about the relationship between color and physical three dimensional structures. The size and the scale of this particular work is related to the read of Gary's hands. As high and as wide as he can stretch."
[Gary Day] "And actually the idea of reaching and grasping and making marks with what you can reach is the very first images you have in the caves were people putting their hand print up and making marks around it.
So one side of it is figuring out those gestures on the canvas actually. And take those measurements and then start to work on a computer to scale with... "
[NARRATOR] "Gary Day likes to draw upon the technologies of different ages."
[Gary Day] "Essentially trying to do a lot of art history at once I guess. Seeing what happens if you just throw it in a blender.
Right now I'm working with flower images... garden images a little bit. The design for the wood block was traced on... from the images from the computer. And basically what the image is is those grid sections that I was putting together on the computer and then a line drawing of a camellia that I'd used in paintings before this. So it starts to be a combination of the flower image with the grid image.
Gardens are a pretty good metaphor for an interface and that people go out to them to commune with nature and I tend to think of art as like an interface. In my case an interface between technology and myself. So that's a good metaphor to play with. And people will think about it that way."