Shading Window

Shading Window 1977

76.5cm. x 56cm.   30in. X 22in.
BFK Rives
Edition 20

Exhibitions
Ninth Burnaby Biennial Print Show.  1977
Printmaking Symposium , The Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University, Kingston Ontario. 1977
Solo Exhibition  1985 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario., in 1986, travelled to the The Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Kingston Public Library, 1986
Unpaid Labour,  2015, Art Gallery of Burlington. Ontario.

Collections
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Gift of Mary E. Rawlyk in memory of Natalie Luckyj.
Toronto Dominion Bank
T. Eaton Company
Moore Corporation
Patrician Development
British Columbia central Credit Union
Private Collections

Notes
The leaf area of this print is an intaglio printed aquatint. It is surrounded on three sides by an embossed window frame. It is divided by an uninked pull cord which was laid over the inked plate for each printing. The cord pull ring was inked and relief printed. The window shade was relief printed.

Although this window is not part of a domestic process, it is an essential part of a domestic interior.  It controls the amount of daylight and fresh air entering a dark interior work place. Windows are essential for a healthy work environment and a healthy state of mind, for an isolated housewife/mother.