Anne Wilson (American, b. 1949)
Dispersions (no. 22)
INV-2231
Anne Wilson (American, b. 1949)2013
Dispersions (no. 22)
Anne Wilson (American, b. 1949) →21st Centurytextilefiber art
Date
2013
Medium
Linen, satin damask weave, embroidered with cotton, polyester, and/or silk, and human hair
Dimensions
64.5 × 64.5 × 3.8 cm (25 3/8 × 25 3/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowment
The effect of this textile is highly ambiguous: when viewing the work from a distance, one wonders whether the areas of damage were caused by bullets, cigarette burns, or something else. A tension is created by the play of various contrasts: the etheral (comet-like celestial forms) versus the mundane (bourgeois family linens); the handworked "art object" (stitching) versus the machine-made damask background; and informal versus formal patterns.
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