Hotzestrasse 23
This group of paintings takes its collective title from the street address of a Swiss company that specialized in producing stereotypes or clichés for the commercial printing industry. The advertisements for this service were regularly placed within Graphis Magazine from the 1940’s- 1980’s, an era predating the eventual dominance of photo lithography, desktop publishing and digital printing.
The paintings from this series are based on a group of scanner drags captured from the printed stereotype advertisements. A scanner drag is the intentional movement of source material, moved at varying speeds through the scanner, causing a unique, distorted capture of the original image. The graphics within the advertisements are distorted by this process and are abstracted, edited, cropped and inverted within Photoshop before being output to silkscreens. Each painting is unique although some are produced in variation. Embedded within this mode of screenprinted image production is a potential for the imagery to exist in multiple or double like a magazine spread. The compositions are produced on panel, often on canvas or linen surfaces using proportions based on European A3 and A2 paper sizes.
This group of paintings takes its collective title from the street address of a Swiss company that specialized in producing stereotypes or clichés for the commercial printing industry. The advertisements for this service were regularly placed within Graphis Magazine from the 1940’s- 1980’s, an era predating the eventual dominance of photo lithography, desktop publishing and digital printing.
The paintings from this series are based on a group of scanner drags captured from the printed stereotype advertisements. A scanner drag is the intentional movement of source material, moved at varying speeds through the scanner, causing a unique, distorted capture of the original image. The graphics within the advertisements are distorted by this process and are abstracted, edited, cropped and inverted within Photoshop before being output to silkscreens. Each painting is unique although some are produced in variation. Embedded within this mode of screenprinted image production is a potential for the imagery to exist in multiple or double like a magazine spread. The compositions are produced on panel, often on canvas or linen surfaces using proportions based on European A3 and A2 paper sizes.
![Gatefold, 2013, silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas mounted to panel, 23 x 16.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/868bdefc5b869184bc2704427d41fb1674f43f56940f02ff0db7dd997f4f6469/grahammcdougal61.jpg)
![Grid Aberration, 2013, silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas mounted to panel, 23 x 16.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8c23479afb50669aed68d15179991e086e15b3eb31f056066570d0c8512d70f/grahammcdougal62.jpg)
![Barrel, 2013, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen mounted to panel, 23 x 16.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca6adaf820835adb27889abf459baba0c65d4ac36403a5d2369d59525c7b5ec0/grahammcdougal64.jpg)
![Ligature, 2013, silkscreen ink on canvas mounted to panel, 33 x 23 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/835fef5bb1d43abe15ae1cfe14e3228863a23c5f57cd8dc4777d51a56b6506be/grahammcdougal67.jpg)
![Studio View](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d0908001c082ff03ff0addc6279bcacf3f462c08ab10d861da4fc21e7c0ef40/grahammcdougal60.jpg)
![Moiré Mirror, 2013, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen mounted to panel, 23 x 33 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b823c701502358633e01f5d30266e0ee60dbc2508b4081fb02d477ad53c741d8/grahammcdougal68.jpg)
![Duplexed, 2013, silkscreen ink on linen mounted to panel, 16.5 x 23 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/507bb8df853617dd0921a4724a8e351019eb05d171a1d7cca7bd63497f948c8b/grahammcdougal65.jpg)
![Duplexed Aberration, 2014, silkscreen ink on linen mounted to panel, 16.5 x 23 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/895da8e71a9ec32d9826462686254f9a78af6440055a64bbcbed03aaa45022a2/grahammcdougal66.jpg)
![Studio View](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b70214751d8826ebe9061967953a1d8aa8150e0a8436c58b25e0ca5dbcb2b6ae/grahammcdougal63.jpg)
![Concertina Fold, 2013, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen mounted to panel, 17 x 11 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f6cc8e0e3a0d6efebe7fb31228c8df6235c011d8c8fefc05253b58999af54f6/grahammcdougal70.jpg)
![Duplexed Crop, 2013, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen mounted to panel, 17 x 11 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82f6278ca0aa29f4010fd039a8c74a820057cb252b0557310211d55d6a40c24d/grahammcdougal69.jpg)
![Small Aberration, 2013, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen mounted to panel, 17 x 11 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec92c8d3eb30d6752c0ebcc7c4352edad77caff39171ec589831e8b6537aa455/grahammcdougal71.jpg)
![Quoin, 2014, silkscreen ink and acrylic on panel, 16.5 x 23 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0848be3b111a5ba820f34aebc792cca2298dd5c3f401dafec3bbdaee6ef2c6f/grahammcdougal92.jpg)
![Untitled (Hotzestrasse 23), 2013, tabloid, web-press newsprint with screen printed interior covers, 13.5 x 29.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a76929bb699af284d3d46fdbdc7d39ca548dab4be342ef1ad4ade06958fee1a/grahammcdougal73.jpg)
![Untitled (Hotzestrasse 23), 2013, tabloid, web-press newsprint with screen printed interior covers, 13.5 x 29.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7bdea1cc4a963afab73b500586c4b2c45a2cfdc5be5439e04b268160393f495f/grahammcdougal74.jpg)
![Untitled (Hotzestrasse 23), 2013, tabloid, web-press newsprint with screen printed interior covers, 13.5 x 29.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2622e51568f6230847447f877d340372f2e697025fc5de345e22f808362dd98/grahammcdougal75.jpg)
![Untitled (Hotzestrasse 23), 2013, tabloid, web-press newsprint with screen printed interior covers, 13.5 x 29.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/064891960f3b70807254f49d41cbacc007d8e91fae68ff0beea3c0ffefaf87b6/grahammcdougal76.jpg)
![Untitled (Hotzestrasse 23), 2013, tabloid, web-press newsprint with screen printed interior covers, 13.5 x 29.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4dd5b1cb4c543c5aaadc15b52b5309cd2e5d4ebe92d2e3bd15f5a96b47b11508/grahammcdougal77.jpg)
![Untitled (Hotzestrasse 23), 2013, tabloid, web-press newsprint with screen printed interior covers, 13.5 x 29.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6980d2a3dcded5f2fb8dfc86e8ea5a2c795f135c3a76c8be3031e7d75df282c/grahammcdougal78.jpg)
![Untitled (Hotzestrasse 23), 2013, tabloid, web-press newsprint with screen printed interior covers, 13.5 x 29.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14c5f6ed5c9591f03b6e67493322da13d911a73c2603620b90614a6befc1dab8/grahammcdougal79.jpg)
![Untitled (Hotzestrasse 23), 2013, tabloid, web-press newsprint with screen printed interior covers, 13.5 x 29.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e00f84651381cf128c4fdd9703caebba1810fa1fe5d632b177048a488967aa75/grahammcdougal84.jpg)
![Positive Forme, 2014, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen mounted to panel, 33 x 23 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa89310ac413f5a1db7258674ea4eb181587b6939548d3d4681f3faaf7959ef7/grahammcdougal94.jpg)
![Negative Forme, 2014, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen mounted to panel, 33 x 23 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cbfc069ce877293d21558bf02ece5fa151145213c369c4265e69b95d262480e5/grahammcdougal95.jpg)
![Chase, 2014, silkscreen ink and acrylic on panel, 23 x 16.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/689b777e7337da2ee52da30fe2e717e46a9baf69c9d9908c8f181c8544a0e2fe/grahammcdougal93.jpg)
![Interlacing, 2014, silkscreen ink and acrylic on panel, 23 x 16.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e2c283d2e3684d77b822ec3b70bc56f9f689f55b720e2f081aeaabde52dee49/grahammcdougal91.jpg)
![Cropped Lasso, 2015, silkscreen ink on and acrylic on panel, 16.5 x 23 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/063f34dba579ad4ea6396411223d84c65004559b48cd64f5ac90ac42b7037ab2/grahammcdougal102.jpg)
![Cropped Neon, 2015, silkscreen ink on canvas mounted to panel, 16.5 x 23 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d4ee985cfd650147d19de8e5f0c9866ba26264e87edcb90bb915bd951000c26/grahammcdougal101.jpg)
![Cropped Aberration, 2015, silkscreen ink on linen mounted to panel, 16.5 x 23 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/477320657352a1734e8a11f1d7d6160fbb70f6f1f515385f531c7159c7ded719/grahammcdougal103.jpg)
![Studio View](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aaa7b56529b9165b067c4817fc6090dd685723c296761933b9173d15e9b5bb6a/grahammcdougal96.jpg)
![Interlacing (YC), 2015, silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas mounted to panel, 23 x 16.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9e0b2bb91c5f9a08e6a69017d34c10b8dc4d39be898323241f5e90ba7f844cb/grahammcdougal104.jpg)
![Interlacing (K), 2015, silkscreen ink and acrylic on herringbone fabric mounted to panel, 23 x 16.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47cad44f625b758e06e7625e2820b75b998c3f5352b1f5a8b1d825ffe67e1207/grahammcdougal106.jpg)
![Interlacing (Selective Color Cool), 2015, silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas mounted to panel, 23 x 16.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de907efe5ee4160f6a4a4bf8fe381fa4e489796de608adc0618b8cfeb65f8dd6/grahammcdougal109.jpg)
![Interlacing (Selective Color Warm), 2015, silkscreen ink and acrylic on panel, 23 x 16.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ffbda40ca8b28a15eb7a64a8d00255450e7baea39ee89b0abe594a93106f6109/grahammcdougal105.jpg)
![Studio View](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/118e7ad7004009d6723d139b0352c236c14272ae1c57cdbe90e0667e598768ae/grahammcdougal110.jpg)
![Folded Interlacing, (selective color cool), 2015, silkscreen ink and acrylic on panel, 23 x 16.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aac8e9aca39318788e8a6ddb69e2cda6b6d1d5e4d63865ea92c25c1c1f485532/grahammcdougal107.jpg)
![Folded Interlacing, (selective color warm), 2015, silkscreen ink and acrylic on panel, 23 x 16.5 inches](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2fed37bc6ff05a55d0a36b45d0d1d8057de92942e6117b12d69821e970d010be/grahammcdougal108.jpg)
![Studio View](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2461c48e99f3017159b34431ad3b5c59c5d124b7d6fd0ff2ea8ec53de3ff037/grahammcdougal111.jpg)