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Artist/Maker
Pacifico Silano
(American, born 1986)
Publisher
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Date2019
MediumArchival inkjet print
DimensionsImage: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Sheet: 12 × 10 in. (30.5 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Wynant J. Williams '35 Art Collection Fund
Object number2020.5.1
Not on view
Description"Pacifico Silano is a lens-based artist whose work explores print culture, the circulation of imagery, and LGBTQ identity. In sourcing his work from gay erotic magazines from after Stonewall and before the AIDS epidemic, Silano fragments and rephotographs published imagery to meditate on loss, longing, and queer melancholy. In Blue Crush, Silano juxtaposed the shoreline of Fire Island with a glimpse of a male nude." (SOURCE: Light Work, Syracuse, NY)
Additional Details
Provenance
2019: 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 center in pencil.
Inscribed
"17/50" on verso at center in pencil.
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