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| Title | The Pers Beacon |
| Artwork Description | This multicolored tapestry presents a circular mosaic that depicts a montage of items that seem to represent civilized advancement, including a boat, a shovel, a graduate's cap, scales, a stethoscope, a saw, a series of telephone poles, books, a cross-cut saw, a hammer, paint brushes, a level, and a computer. |
| Description on Object | The pers beacon; 5 feet square; J Poxson Fawkes |
| Artist Statement | All of my tapestries are woven with linen. Although linen is the most expensive material for tapestry I prefer it for its strength , sheen and long life. Unlike wool, it is hightly durable and resistant to infestation and deterioration. The tapestries are woven on a loom. The technique is woven inlay. A drawing on graph paper is mounted on the loom for weaving. Squares on the graph paper correspond to color stripes in the warp so that weaving proceeds systematically from the drawing, but color choices are not predetermined. (Fawkes, 1995) |
| LC Subject | Textile artists
Textile crafts
Texture (Art)
Textured woven fabrics
Tapestry
Linen
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| AAT Subject | fiber
fiber art
textiles
tapestry
tapestry (process)
linen (material)
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| Creator | Fawkes, Judith Poxson
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| About the Artist | Judith Poxson Fawkes, a resident of Portland, Oregon, is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. She taught weaving at four institutions of higher education, most recently at Lewis and Clark College, Portland.
Her fifty-six commissions hang in such diverse locations as a Federal courthouse, hospitals, university and school buildings, corporations and businesses, a Royal Caribbean Cruise ship, residences in Saudi Arabia and Paris, and in a jail lobby. Sixty-three tapestries are in public collections.
She is a recipient of a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists, an Individual Artists' Fellowship from the Oregon Art Commission and a Crafts Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts.
She has written a book entitled "Weaving a Chronicle" described as a visual and written catalog by a working tapestry weaver. Forty-six tapestries, pictured in color, are accompanied by adjacent text describing the reasons for each work's creation. Stories of the tapestries revisit commissions and exhibitions. Each tapestry represents seminal ideas in one of six series. The tapestries contribute to the chronicle of how ideas are conceived and executed-- adding to the history of American art and craft, and to the definition of contemporary tapestry. (details provided by artist, 2008) |
| Artist Contact | jpfawkes@earthlink.net |
| Artist URL | http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/fawkes_jp.html
For additional information about the artist, see http://www.lindahodgesgallery.com/artists/poxson_fawkes.html |
| Regional Arts Council | The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/ |
| Artwork Creation Date | 1997-98 |
| Award Date(s) | 1995
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| Installation Date | 1998 |
| Installation Mechanism | Three inch wide hems on top and bottom edges of each tapestry have small buttonholes in the back hem. Wooden lattice strips with key-hole slots fit inside the hems. The buttonholes and key-hole slots align to fit over sheet rock screws in the wall. |
| Medium | Fiber art
Textile art
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| Artwork Measurements | 5 x 5 feet |
| Materials/Technique | tapestry; linen, wood lattice slats in top and bottom hems for support |
| Source Format | slide
color
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| Artwork Site | Tigard Oregon. Public Employees Retirement System
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| Location | curved wall |
| Site Address | 11410 S. W. 68th Parkway, Tigard Oregon |
| County | Washington County, Oregon
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| Image Processing History | Master tiff image captured at 4000 pixels across the long edge using SilverFast AI 6.0 software. Digital images in tiff format are archived and saved. Adobe Photoshop CS2 used to reorient and crop image, set and neutralize shadow and highlight points, adjust levels, contrast and sharpen as needed. Second production tiff saved. Color profile converted from Adobe RGB (1998) to sRGB IEC61966-2.1, resolution revised to 125 pixels, resize longer dimension to 875 pixels; save display jpeg at quality level 6. |
| Rights | Copyright is retained by the artist or author. All rights reserved. |
| Contributors | University of Oregon Libraries; Oregon Arts Commission |
| Publisher | University of Oregon Libraries
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| Digital Collection Title | University of Oregon. Libraries. Oregon Public Percent for Art Digital Collection.
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