Face-OffFace Off, 2000 Offset Lithograph Edition of 50 30 x 22 in Collaborating Printer: Bob Franklin In Face Off, Gayle Tanaka turns her own face into both subject and argument. Across nine self portraits, she presents the same face in shifting tonal variations each hue enough, in life, to assign a person to an ethnic category and all the assumptions that travel with it. Laid side by side, the effect is quietly destabilizing. The face does not change. Only

And the images on the print reflect some images from Spain but also other images from places I've been

anopen hand upon which life and fortune may be read

and terrestrial realms

we may have abandoned too much

The steam iron for me is a vessel for all three of these elements

The image of Aunt Lou had always been a ghost in the family

To sustain my practice

I am constantly searching for meaning in my life as I create

she created this work at the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia in 1988

I'm working into portraying identity through the interactions of mediums and materials

harmony—the "preciousness"—of Italian Renaissance painting—especially the early Renaissance work of artists such as Fra Angelico

These individual symbols are not meant to be some kind of private visual language