XEROGRAPHY

I first began using xerox in 1987 to rebel against my own realistic figure paintings as well as the broader patriarchal and hierarchical art world . I printed a little booklet entitled "So Fuck You", containing small xeroxed images of my large paintings and adding irreverent captions like "another fucking painting". In 1989 I exhibited a series of small cat images with descriptives such as "Pussy from Behind" and "Black Pussy" in Group Material's "Democracy" at Dia. It was very liberating. The inherent enlarging capacity of the copy machine then led to large-scale gridded wall installations of hundreds of sheets of paper—some with giant genitals, as in my solo show "Read My Pussy", at Souyun Yi gallery, NYC, 1990. Other xerox wall installations include the Drawing Center, with director Ann Philbin, 1990; Art in General, with director Holly Block, 1991; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 1993, and "Bad Girls" at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, with director Marcia Tucker, 1994.

Currently I use xerox in my practice called "Symmetrical Procedures" which adheres to the parameters of