Julie Voyce

Paste Up

Nov 2-23, 2002

“Limited colour screen printing is pivotal to the realization of the abstracts. There is printmaking where you lay down colour after colour until you are satisfied with the result. Then there is printmaking where you choose to resolve the piece within a certain number of colours.

“In the case of this imagery it's two-three colours. I decided to make the entire body of work in the same two-three colours just to up the ante. The colour limit makes a game where you are able to break down the image at the same time as you are constructing it. These prints are colour-separated by design, not through any type of program. You take two-three colours and orchestrate them in such a way that they create more colours.

“The forms that make up each composition are culled from what is seen in the course of day to day errands. Doctor Seuss has been an influence. I'll bet this is the way he'd make abtracts.”

- Julie Voyce, October 2002

Coles Notes Version:

“These prints are leveraged in drawing and colour separation by design. the imagery kick starts from my day to day landscape (and stuff from the ROM). Although the work looks like it runs a cusp between realism and the nonobjective, I consider it abstract as abstraction is what I set out to do.”

- Julie Voyce, October 2002