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STAGE FRIGHT
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Corporate Stage Fright |
Stage Fright: Dress Rehearsal |
Iowa Theater,
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Stage Fright, |
Stage Fright Woodstock |
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Stage Fright 2 |
Stage Fright 3 |
Stage Fright 4 |
Thrust Stage Fright |
Iowa Theater, Cedar Rapids |
Stage Fright Curtains |
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Stage Fright The Mark |
Stage Fright: As the Curtains Close |
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In the mid 1970s I became interested in the idea of live performance and stage fright. There were two movie theaters in Cedar Rapids that had started as vaudeville theaters. I spent time in them photographing the stage, seats, walls, dressing rooms, stairways, entrances, etc. The series started as realistic renderings of these theatres. As it progressed, the idea of the stage and curtain as abstract shapes and opportunities for variation in color suggested by spotlights became more important to me. The paintings became first cartoon-like, then geometric abstractions. This pattern of starting realistically and evolving to the abstract is an important process in my work.
