Bill Ritchie's art in Washington State
in
the
Ed & Anne Praczukowski Collection
Note: the actual print in the Praczukowski collection
is not available for photo at this time
.
Little Spaceship Crash
Provenance: 1977. Print. Intaglio, relief, stencil, litho. Colors uncertain at this writing but may have been ochre, red, blue, black, gray. Image 12 X 9 in on 15 X 11 3/4 in Van Gelder Zonen (natural, buff) paper. No. 1/35. Signed lower right.
About Ed and Anne Praczukowski: I met Ed at the University of Washington--he had been hired several years before I. Looking back, I think we had a lot in common as artists. He was known for his outer space orientation. He was obsessed, really, with anything that had to do with cosmi dimensions and images. I recall he made a space helmet for a show one time. They had two sons, and one of them took a video class with me. He wanted to be a film maker. Ed was the only person on the faculty who participated in my video art class--we made a video of one of his paintings, and the video is still in the UW library moving images collection.
Artist's Comment: Spanning two years of development and about 75 impressions, Little Spaceship Crash was the seed for a larger work. These came out of the movie, Planet of the Apes. I like to tell the story about the path flown by the helicopter filming it, and then my entry into computers graphics and how I learned the X-Y-Z of IT. This print was test of methods I would need for a larger version, then the tests resulted in an edition that stood on its own.
Institutions and corporate collections: Art Planning Consultants, New York, NY; Baker University, Baldwin, KS; Landau/Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles CA;Oregon Arts Commission; Bill Mally Collection, University of Washington IMS, Seattle, WA; Norton Building, Seattle, WA; Teller Training Institute, Seattle, WA; United Pacific Reliance Corporation, CA; USIA Tokyo, Japan.
Exhibitions: Anne Hughes Gallery, Portland, OR; Davidson Galleries, Seattle (where it won an award), WA; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA; Kiku Gallery, Seattle, WA; Silvermine Guild of Arts, New Canaan, CT; US Information Agency, Tokyo Japan; Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, AK
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