Portfolio Vol 15: Jane Lackey (USA) Introduction by Buzz Spector; Foreword by Irene Hofmann; 'Distillations' by Helga Pakasaar Published by Telos Arts 26 colour photos, 48 pages, 22cm x 22cm "With meticulous craft and profound critical awareness Jane Lackey has produced a body of artworks that image the codes of physical being through the processes of the studio. Lackey's painted panels and shaped felt drawings are exquisitely skinlike, evoking the body's outer covering through tenderly but relentlessly worked surfaces. In recent work she has explored ways of representing the human genome through acts of artistic surgery performed upon dictionaries...traces of parinting can be read across these panoramic fields of cut edges as subtly varied striations, remeniscent of the gels and smears studied in genetic laboratories...These genomic references are paired with snippets of readable text; sentences or phrases containing misspellings that are the equivalent of a code altered in transmission." [From the introduction by Buzz Spector, artist, writer and Chair, Department of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York] "Jane Lackey creates works that explore the territory between art, science and linguistics..." [from the Foreword by Irene Hoffman, Curator of Contemporary Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach] The Textile Directory Bookstore postal charges: UK 1 book = £2.50 2 books = £4.50 3 books = £7.00 4 books or more = £9.00 Overseas 1 book = £6.00 2 books = £10.00 3 books = £14.00 4 books or more = £18.00 Price: £9.95