At Swearingen Visions, Nancy Swearingen’s Dearborn, Michigan art studio, the artist reproduces her nationally-renowned photographs using a process called giclée.

GICLEE: A French word meaning “to spray”, giclée has come to describe the recognized, standard process of digitally reproducing fine art works. While affordable, giclée is a slow and meticulous process requiring the skills of a master printer. The technology calls on special equipment and techniques to create the color accuracy, sharpness, tone and artistic interpretation necessary for fine museum quality reproductions.

ARCHIVAL QUALITY: The special spray printer uses six colors of archival quality ink to achieve a print that is remarkable in clarity, brilliant in color and capable of lasting for generations.

Dozens of museums and galleries exhibit giclées including the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Guggenheim, New York; The Museum of Fine Art, Boston; the Philadelphia Museum; the National Gallery of Women in the Art, Washington, D.C., and the California Museum of Photography. The Smithsonian Institute also, soon will be reproducing many of its vintage photographs as giclées.

Swearingen Visions prints Nancy Swearingen’s photographs on European hand-molded, acid free, watercolor paper — the highest grade available — using a specially designed ink-jet printer that is capable of putting more than 3,000,000 dots per inch onto the paper.

LIMITED AVAILABILITY: Only 100 prints of each image will be created. Swearingen individually scrutinizes these limited edition prints and only a perfect reproduction receives her signature. The images released in the first edition series represent the most dynamic examples of the artist’s work to date.