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Artist/Maker
Xaviera Simmons
(American, born 1974)
Publisher
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Date2014 (printed 2018)
MediumArchival inkjet print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 11 in. (34.3 × 27.9 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 12 in. (36.8 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Wynant J. Williams '35 Art Collection Fund
Object number2018.9.4
Not on view
Description"Xaviera Simmons roots her studio practice in shifting definitions of landscape, character development, political/social/art histories, and interconnected formal processes. In Simmons’ print, Untitled (Yellow) #2 (2014), a figure holds up a grid of twelve repeating images of a Dinka woman carrying her baby across the river in South Sudan, stripped to reveal her traditional beaded jewelry, representative of many photographs taken by westerners who have made careers documenting tribal cultures. Criticism centers on their creating a subjective fantasy of the indigenous African as a reduced, ritualized being. Simmons questions, re-contextualizes, and literally maps the image." (SOURCE: Light Work, Syracuse, NY)
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Provenance
2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Light Work, Syracuse, NY.
Markings
No markings noted.
Signature
Signed by the artist on verso at lower right corner in black pen.
Inscribed
"23/50" on verso at lower right corner in black pen; "[smiley face] on verso at lower right corner in black pen".
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Date: published November 7, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
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Date: published February 12, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.311