Citizen!

Michael Krueger, supervising printer

born 1967

Joseph S. Lewis, artist

born 1953

Citizen!, 1999

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: relief; Fabriano® wove paper; collagraph; color monotype

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 495 x 495 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 495 x 495 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 1/2 x 19 1/2 in

Credit line: Gift of the artist

Accession number: 2000.0133.b

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Sum of the Parts: Recent Works on Paper," Jun-2001, Stephen Goddard
Citizen was made while Lewis was a visiting artist at the University of Kansas in 1999. While photographing the Leavenworth penitentiary (where many consider some of the inmates to be political prisoners), a voice boomed over the P.A. system, “Citizen, cease taking pictures.” The image used here was taken from the rear window of a car as Lewis and friends sped away. Rather than a series of images, Citizen resolves as one enormous image peppered with symbols that appear elsewhere in his work.