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Nancy Graves (1939 – 1995) created two related works at Graphicstudio in 1990, a sculpture and a print. Ambitious, multi-layered and multi-media, they incorporate two-dimensional and three-dimensional elements. Graves drew on her study of art history, culture, and archaeology to combine ancient Egyptian, Greek, Byzantine, and Christian imagery. Ruth Fine writes that the profusion of imagery “…reflects an ongoing concern with the passage of time and with the relationship of time to the process of viewing a work of art.”
In Canoptic Prestidigitation, Graves continued her exploration of layering through the use of design, color, pattern, and surface on a two-dimensional surface—the lithographic print—while adding a paper piece cast in relief to the lower right corner.
