Your work, down to the smallest detail.
High-resolution archival scanning for artists and makers looking to digitally preserve their work.
My large-format archival scanner captures artwork with exceptional color fidelity and fine surface detail, creating digital files that can live alongside your physical archive. Perfect for artists looking to take their work into its next life online or in print.
For artwork where surface, texture, color, or material are important, scanning can create an incredibly detailed digital record without introducing the lens distortion, reflections, or depth-of-field limitations that can come with traditional photography.
The scanner captures subtle variations in color and surface that can otherwise disappear in a digital reproduction. From individual brushstrokes and layers of pigment to the structure of a woven textile or the grain of a piece of paper.
Artwork Archiving
PORTFOLIOS + WEBSITES
Own consistently documented, high-quality images of your work fort your online portfolio, website, or social media.
APPLICATIONS
Keep professional documentation ready for grants, residencies, exhibitions, fellowships, and other opportunities.
PUBLICATION + PRINT
Create high-resolution source files for books, catalogs, publications, promotional materials, and future reproduction.
ARCHIVING
Build a digital record of your work that can exist alongside the physical original. Especially useful for pieces that are sold, exhibited, gifted, or otherwise leave your studio.
What can I use the files for?
The scanner is especially well-suited to flat and low-relief artwork where fine surface detail can be captured directly.
PAINTING Oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, mixed media, and other painted works.
DRAWING + PAPER Graphite, charcoal, ink, pastel, colored pencil, collage, and other works on paper.
PRINTMAKING Screenprints, relief prints, monotypes, etchings, linocuts, woodcuts, and other print-based work are excellent contenders for scanning documentation.
FIBER + TEXTILE Embroidery, weaving, lace, small textiles, natural fibers, and other fiber-based work. Scanning can reveal surprisingly fine material details, including individual fibers and weave structures that may disappear in a standard photograph.
SMALL OBJECTS + SCULPTURAL WORK Small sculptures, reliefs, assemblages, and other three-dimensional objects may be possible depending on their size, shape, material, and fragility. Because the scanner uses a flatbed, not every three-dimensional work is suitable for scanning. If you're unsure, send me a photo of the piece and I can let you know.
What art can be scanned?
The scanner bed accommodates artwork up to approximately 11 × 17 inches in a single scan.
Works smaller than the bed can be scanned in their entirety at once. Larger works may sometimes be documented through multiple scans and digitally assembled, depending on the artwork's surface, material, and desired final use.
Because the work rests on a glass surface, I cannot scan pieces that are too thick, fragile, wet, heavily dimensional, or otherwise unsafe to place on the bed.
Not sure if your work will fit the process? Send me a photo and its approximate dimensions. I'm happy to take a look before you bring or ship anything.
Size matters.
