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Artist/Maker
Alyson Shotz
(American, born 1964)
Date2014
MediumPigment print on paper, hand-crumpled
DimensionsOverall: 40 × 84 × 2 in. (101.6 × 213.4 × 5.1 cm)
Frame: 44 3/8 × 87 5/8 × 3 3/8 in. (112.7 × 222.6 × 8.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, William G. Roehrick '34 Art Acquisition and Preservation Fund
Object number2015.1
Not on view
DescriptionThe series of six digital prints that make up Topographic Iteration plays with the relationship between illusionism and two- and three-dimensional space. Shotz created the works by crumpling a large white piece of paper, then flattening and photographing it. She then printed that image on a new piece of paper of exactly the same size and type, and hand-crumpled the new print. The final pieces are both photographs and sculptures, and it is difficult—at times even impossible—to discern the difference between the printed creases and the physical ones. Evocative of the surface of the moon and topographical maps, these works possess both a graphic and terrain-like quality.
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Additional Details
Alternate Titles
Topographic Iteration
Exhibition History
2015
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum, Hamilton College. "Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature," October 11, 2014 - April 5, 2015.
https://www.hamilton.edu/wellin/exhibitions/detail/alyson-shotz-1
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum, Hamilton College. "Alyson Shotz: Force of Nature," October 11, 2014 - April 5, 2015.
https://www.hamilton.edu/wellin/exhibitions/detail/alyson-shotz-1
Provenance
2015: Hamilton College (The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum), by purchase from Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York.
Signature
Signed and dated on the verso.
Inscribed
Edition number on verso.
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