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In excellent condition with age appropriate wear. Each panel measures 24" x 18". Overall: 24" x 162" (13.5 feet). Note from Matt Harley: The only time this artwork by Julie Voyce was exhibited (that I know of), it was underground off the "Departures" level under the tracks at Union Station.
The nine panels were part of an untitled installation located in one of a group of display cases newly-built around that time. Andrew Owen, a.k.a. A01, had also shown there so I knew where to look when I heard Julie's work was there.
At first glance, the panels may look as though they were all painted at once, but Julie told me it started as a single painting which simply kept growing. She described going back and back to the art store for more panels, sometimes more than one at a time. Once there were nine, which seemed like a complete number, she left the landscape part intentionally unfinished, well short of that last edge, with a bright pink line along the bottom just to make sure.
Otherwise, she told me, the thing might have gone on and on and on.
In situ, at Union Station, the nine panels were arranged in a line along an easle-like shelf, or vice versa, the whole thing squatting corner to corner across its display case with just enough room to breathe, a perfect fit and a perfect balance of elegant and awkward.
Easle or shelf or both, the support structure was crudely but beautifully constructed using scraps of wood; offcuts and odd-shaped bits of plywood, sturdy sticks and curvy driftwood. Each piece cleaned and shaped and fastenened to the overall structure, which, including the backs of the panels, was painted a warm medium-light yellow to counteract any drab winter weather during the show's run.
Then of course there was the contrast between its environ and the artwork; the grey, dull-white, beige, and brown constructed undergound environment, all in straight lines and right angles, suddenly confronted by a fantasy landscape displayed at a couple of rakish angles using an especially odd piece of "artists' furniture", all of it completely apart and self-contained through the liberal use of pigments...
Sublime experience.
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