WORKBOOK installation and documentary in progress at Flashpoint.

WORKBOOK is a video documenting the installation and creation of an exhibition of the same name by Kate McGraw and Ann Tarantino at the not-for-profit Gallery at Flashpoint in Washington, DC.  Financial support for the production of the video will be provided by the sale of prints hand-marked and stamped by the artists.

The video, shot by artist & professional videographer Franciska Farkas, documents the ten days the artists spent creating the wall drawing. It records the artists' physical and creative work, using techniques both planned and improvised, as they engage in a mark-making exchange running the entire length of the gallery walls. The final, mammoth artwork stretches across the gallery like a book waiting to be read and experienced by the audience.

The documentary film is projected on the wall near the exhibition entrance, and serves as an intimate record of the artistic process. WORKBOOK gives viewers insight into the process of creation, making public the most intimate of moments between collaborators-hidden gestures, unscripted moments, silent contemplation, discussion, agreement, disagreement, defeat and celebration. In the end, the video will remain the only evidence of Workbook as an installation, after the gallery walls are painted over, transforming once again into blank surfaces.

WORKBOOK unique prints by Ann Tarantino and Kate McGraw, 2009, courtesey of Curator's Office

By purchasing unique prints, buyers have an opportunity to become art patrons who foster the careers of emerging artists.

Each 7 ½ x 7 ½ inch print will be hand-marked and embellished by Ann and Kate so that each is unique and hand-stamped with a signature seal created by the artists. Each unique piece will be printed on 300 gsm, 100% cotton Crane Museo Portfolio Rag paper.

Patrons who purchase prints by March 24, 2009 will be listed in the video.  All patrons will be invited to a special evening launch event on March 28, 2009 at Flashpoint.

More information about the project can be found at We Draw.

Please support the project by purchasing a print for $50! Paypal accepted at We Draw - Paypal.
The fundraising project is supported by The Pink Line Project.

Thank you for your visionary support!