From the Artist

In site-specific exhibitions, public art commissions, and collaborative projects I use varied combinations of glass, waxed surfaces, found objects, and experimental analog photography to investigate the way we perceive objects and images through our senses. These predominately translucent materials function as both a physical framework and symbolic membrane with implications of scale and the integration of architecture as pivotal components. The transmission of photographically derived images and images formed through optical phenomena are primary elements and are manifested through projection, reflection, and refraction.
_{—Excerpted from https://www.joyarrington.com/text/bio, accessed 7-14-2021}

Kathyrn Jo Yarrington's formal concerns are illustrated in Moving Day, 1987, an offset lithograph in an edition of 100. Her initial interest was to further investigate and develop her symbolic language. The goal was to delve into her fascination with environmental signs and symbols, as well as their relationship to interior signs and symbols. Moving Day is inspired by her interest in installations. Yarrington's print is straightforward in both subject and presentation. Her print's bold, chaotic black lines suggest figures in an earth-colored box with a black triangle symbolizing a house. This structure could represent a house that is being moved out or in. This ambiguity only adds to the print's visual movement. The use of richly textured black, produced by multiple printings, distinguishes the black figures in motion, which are in various positions associated with moving, running, jumping, lifting, and bending, from the black lines. Yarrington's effective and efficient use of these lines, combined with the layering of black on the figures, creates vibrant visual energy within this print.
_{—Adapted from Brandywine Workshop and Archives records and "Fresh, Human and Personal: Signature of Brandywine Workshop," Three Decades of American Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection (Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 2004)}