See the Beautiful Sea XI

1980 (ca)

Silkscreen
2/10
15"x 11.125"

Female Pioneer

Description

These prints belong to Lovejoy’s See the Beautiful Sea series, in which she deconstructed a single seascape into arrays of short, colored strokes that function like informational marks. Inspired by weather-satellite imagery and computer printouts, she sought to “take apart reality” into abstract patterns and then reconstruct it as a scene, revealing how data-like symbols can encode the underlying structures of the natural world.

In XXIV, the strokes are organized into orderly vertical stripes, capped by a band of streaked color that suggests a horizon or a cloud layer. In XI, the image appears crumpled like paper, its folds and creases introducing depth and a tactile sense of handmade intervention. Together, the works test how repeated marks—reminiscent of line-printer output—can oscillate between abstract data pattern and evocative seascape, anticipating Lovejoy’s later explorations of computer-generated views of the world.

Labyrinthe: City 3 by Margot Lovejoy, 1988

Labyrinthe: City 3 Margot Lovejoy1988 Print

See the Beautiful Sea XXIV by Margot Lovejoy, 1980 (ca)

See the Beautiful Sea XXIV Margot Lovejoy1980 (ca) Print

Untitled Margot Lovejoy1975 (ca) Print

Dot Matrix Portrait - Kiki Smith, Ellen Cooper, Cara Perlman by Unknown, 1980 (ca)

Dot Matrix Portrait - Kiki Smith, Ellen Cooper, Cara Perlman Unknown1980 (ca) Dot-Matrix

Dot Matrix Portrait - Kiki Smith and Ellen Cooper by Unknown, 1980 (ca)

Dot Matrix Portrait - Kiki Smith and Ellen Cooper Unknown1980 (ca) Dot-Matrix

Computer Code Lame Shirt by Elisabeth De Senneville, 1980 (ca)

Computer Code Lame Shirt Elisabeth De Senneville1980 (ca) Textile

Untitled by Enrique Castro-Cid, 1980 (ca)

Untitled Enrique Castro-Cid1980 (ca) Print

War Games Revised by Eduardo Paolozzi, 1967

War Games Revised Eduardo Paolozzi1967 Print