Erica Daborn

Artist Works

Interplay: Fence - 2006
20 1/2 x 20 inc gouache, ink, pencil, colored pencil on enlarged b

Artist Bio

Enlarged images found in photographic books from the 1940s and 1950s are the surfaces upon which Erica Daborn creates her densely layered drawings.  Painting the bookplate to obliterate the original scene, Daborn scrapes and rubs away places to reveal traces of the underlying photograph.  The uncovered imagery is then reinterpreted through the lines, smudges, drawings, and drips of ink, pencil, and graphite that Daborn applies.  The found photograph and applied drawing uniquely interact, creating a visual stimulus with great depth and charged meaning.