Gay intended to design a website to display and sell her prints. That didn't happen, but interest lingers in some corners, so her husband Kent, who promised to see it was done without knowing how 24 years ago, finally put this together. Thanks to Gay's niece Truly Maxwell for the impetus to get started again.
The whole show is included, 29 pieces, plus just about all the other artwork Kent could find that she did digitally, 38 more pieces, mostly unfinished. Not included are some drafts that are mainly duplicative, building plans, and a couple business cards and logos she did for hire.
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Since these works were produced on a computer, you see them here much the way Gay did when she made them.
On the other hand, colors can vary quite a bit from screen to screen. And the colors won't look quite the same as on a gallery wall. A backlit screen tends to look brighter than ink on paper, archival inks in particular are limited, and the color correction process for printing was casual.
Gay lightened some of the pieces to look better printed. Since these are viewed on screen, the pre-lightened color is usually used for the main image here, but both versions are included when available. Sometimes when the lightened version includes other corrections too, the main image here is a combination of that version and an earlier one. If the colors were changed for printing and not merely lightened, the changed colors are usually used here.
Different equipment and browser combinations produce different qualities of images, even without resizing. Most should be good enough, but if the images look bad, you might get better results viewing them in an image viewing program.
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The images on the "previous" and "next" buttons are mostly taken from the piece they point to, a draft for it, or a related bit from another piece. Others are free variations of the piece, just for fun.
The entrance image for the site is based on one of the prints, chair & outlet. The lettering is Gay's, from a flyer she made to sell children's rompers and hats she designed. That was after her hands were affected by ALS, so it has a funky look, but she must have liked it to use on the flyer.
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