Nashville
- Situational Prints, SFU Gallery, Vancouver, 2007
During a road trip to Nashville, Tennessee, in the winter of 1981, Denise took her offset lithograph plate into Charlie’s Eat Shop, inviting customers and staff to mark the surface. In the resulting prints, these spontaneous gestures are layered with photographic etchings of the participants themselves. Heavily influenced by Joseph Beuys’s philosophy of social engagement, Hawrysio’s process loosens the artist’s singular control over pictorial composition. As curator Bill Jeffries notes, the resulting "words and scrawls are a record of directness and unmediated simplicity, of a type that no one schooled in art could ever make."
