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Artist/Maker
Andrea Modica
(American, born 1960)
Publisher
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Date2001
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (19.1 × 24.1 cm)
Sheet: 9 × 12 in. (22.9 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Wynant J. Williams '35 Art Collection Fund
Object number2020.8.1
Not on view
Description"In all of Andrea Modica’s photographs something is slightly askew. The full activity of every frame is never entirely revealed, nor ever completely concealed. Focus shifts from back to front and side to side. Hands obscure faces, and torsos stretch out of the frame or only appear in the background as distant details. Even when she abandons the devices of framing and focus to throw us off center, she can achieve the same results with the clarity of her juxtapositions, like the image of a young boy holding the severed tail of a goat. In these moments, and they occur throughout her work, Modica creates open-ended narratives where fact and fiction are merged and blurred in order to show us the rough edges of experience where uncertainty and caution meet anticipation and hope." (SOURCE: Light Work, Syracuse, NY)
Additional Details
Provenance
2020: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Light Work, Syracuse, NY.
Markings
No markings noted.
Signature
Signed "Andrea Modica" at upper right in pencil.
Inscribed
"B" at lower left in pencil;
"For Light Work 2001" at upper left in pencil;
"Treadwell, NY" at right center in pencil.
"For Light Work 2001" at upper left in pencil;
"Treadwell, NY" at right center in pencil.
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