I serve as archivist for the art and career of my father, Andrew Stevovich, maintaining a comprehensive relational archive that brings together records of his artworks, provenance, exhibitions, publications, reviews, and other historical material. The project also includes collecting, preserving, preparing, and organizing digital imagery for as much of his work as can be documented visually.
The catalogue takes a modern structured-data approach to artist cataloguing. Records are maintained as structured and interconnected data rather than being confined to manually composed documents or pages, making the archive source-controllable, auditable, readily parseable, and adaptable to many forms of publication and analysis.
A significant part of the project is the design and maintenance of the underlying data model: establishing identities for works, normalizing historical records, documenting provenance and references, representing incomplete or uncertain information, and maintaining relationships across artworks, exhibitions, publications, people, and other records. Associated imagery is collected, prepared, optimized, and connected to these records as source material becomes available.
The catalogue raisonné forms the central archival effort accompanying my broader artifact research initiative, providing a unified and extensible record of Andrew Stevovich’s career while preserving the material needed for future scholarship, publication, and documentation.