Rebecca Gray Smith
Prints | Sculpture | Lithographs
Rebecca Gray Smith explores the presence of death in all human endeavors, using traditional signifiers of mortality such as the skeleton as a primary actor and subject. The artist examines how the Medusa of Death stalks us all, in all walks of life, while at the same time looking at the capriciousness inherent in the present: the absurdities, cruelties, and horrors of modern existence. To Smith. the history of printmaking is elemental to human civilization, reaching back to the prehistoric dawn of mankind.
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Prints
The Alphabet
The Alphabet is a portfolio of intaglio etchings. Each print plate corresponds to a specific fatal activity or malady. There are upper case letters A-Z with two repeated letters B and C, lower case A-Z plus title plate and end plate, and numbers 0-9 plus a title plate for a total of 67 plates. The images in the uppercase Alphabet series were created over a 25-year period starting around 1989, originally intended as a response to the AIDS crisis.
Edition of 5 plus 3 APs.
Lower Case Alphabet
28 prints
1 Title plate: Image 8 x 6” paper 11 x 10”
26 A-Z plates: Image 5 x 4” paper 11 x 10”
1 End plate: Image 4.38 x 7.75” paper 11 x 10”
2020
Intaglio Print on Somerset Satin Paper
Numbers
11 prints
1 Title plate: Image 10 x 8” paper 14 x 11”
10 plates 0 – 9: Image 5 x 4” paper 11 x 10”
2016
Intaglio Print on Somerset Satin Paper
Upper Case Alphabet
28 prints
1 “A” Title plate: Image 10 x 8” paper 14 x 11”
27 B-Z (2 each of B and C): Image 5 x 4” paper 11 x 10”;
except: B2, F, K, M, Q, R, U, W, X & Z: Image 8 x 6” paper 11 x 10”
2014
Intaglio Print on Somerset Cream Paper
Individual prints are $300 each, unframed.
Discounts on multiple prints are available, please inquire. Full sets of the entire series, or any of the three groups of letter styles are available. Please contact the gallery for pricing.
Alphabyte - Title Plate
a - Assassination
b - Bullets & Bombs
c - Car Crash
d - Dance of Death, Depression, Despair
e - Extinctions
f - Fossil Fuels
g - Gravity of the Grave
h - Homeless Heart Attack
i - Inferno
j - Jesus & Judas
k - Kentucky Derby
l - Labyrinth of Life
m - Minotaur in Manhattan
n - Narcissus, Nemesis, Nix
o - Obsolete, Old-age, Opioids
p - Plastic Pollution
q - Quarterback, Quagmire, Quarantine
r - Robot Rebellion
s - Slavery
t - Twin Tower Terrorism
u - USA
v - Vietnam Violence
w - Walls
x - X Chromosome
y - Y Chromosome
z - Zombie Zeitgeist
Fine - The End: Four Riders of the Wave Apocalypse
Numbers Title Plate: Dim Sum Dinner Party
0 - Black Whole
1 - Whole in One
2 - Two Be
3 - Three Fates
4 - Four Play
5 - Five Masters of War
6 - Six Extinctions
7 - Seven Deadly Sins
8 - Behind the Eight Ball
9 - Nine Muses
A - Riders of the Apocalypse
B1 - Baseball
B2 - Banks and Bailouts
C1 - Crucifixion
C2 - Cigarettes, Cancer, & Chromosomes
D - Dentists & Doctors
E - Elementary Education
F - Fired
G - Guns, Gangs, Ghettos
H - Harlots & Hookers
I - Internet
J - Jail
K - Key, Knot, Knob
L - Legal, Law
M - Medical, Mort, Marlboro Man
N - Narcotics
O - Overpopulation
P - Petroleum
Q - Quixote & Quetzalcoatl
R - Race of the Racists
S - Sex & Seduction
T - Time
U - Umbilical Umbrella Universe
V - Vampire Virus
W - Work and War
X - Xylophone and "X'd Out"
Y - Yin & Yang
Z - Zodiacs, Zippers, Zero
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Sculpture
COVID Creature
Mixed Media Sculpture
72 x 24 x 24”
2021
Price on Request
COVID Creature
detail #1
COVID Creature
detail #2
COVID Creature
detail #3
COVID Creature
detail #4
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Lithographs
Self Portrait I
Stone Lithograph on Somerset Cream Rag
Edition of 18
Image 8 x 6”; paper 11 x 8”
2017
$1,000
Self Portrait II
Stone Lithograph on Somerset Cream Rag
Edition of 10
Image 14 x 10”; paper 16 x 11”
2017
$1,000
