Hotel Acatlan: Two Weeks Later, from Moving Focus

“The Moving Focus series included multi-color lithographs, intaglio and screenprinting collage and ten editions with hand-painted sculptural framed designed by the artist. The project began in my Bedford, New York workshop in 1984, and was completed at my newly built workshop in Mount Kisco, New York, 1987. This collaboration set a record for the number of printing elements made (a total of 577) with some 500 colors printed on twenty-eight editions and one four-panel screen. The traditional forms of creating color lithography would have taken nearly three times as long to make and would not have been portable. The combined skills of sixteen workshop collaborators (myself included) at Tyler Graphics Ltd. made this work possible, along with David’s specially designed frames (fabricated by Jerry Solomon Enterprises in L.A.). Given all the innovations and the complexity of the works (both visual and technically), I think of this as one of the seminal print projects of my career and certainly one of the most exciting. David, in essence, tipped his hat that Picasso, thanking him and carrying printmaking and Cubist ideology that much further.”
-Ken Tyler (Lloyd, Hockney Printmaker, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 121)