Peter Hujar
American, 1934-1987
Canal Street Piers: Fake Men on Stairs
INV-2662
Peter Hujar
American, 1934-19871983
Canal Street Piers: Fake Men on Stairs
Peter Hujar American, 1934-1987 →photographyphotograph
Date
1983
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 20.5 × 20.2 cm (8 1/8 × 8 in.); paper: 35.4 × 27.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Ruttenberg Curatorial Endowment Fund
This work records sculptures made by David Finn as part of an informal 1983 effort by artists to fill Pier 34 on Manhattan’s West Side with art. The sculptures, along with Wojnarowicz’s series Rimbaud in New York and Hujar’s photographs of inert figures and investigations of the uncanny space between life and death, suggest a shared interest among artists in Hujar’s circle in using the lingering presence of a body to suggest a haunted space.
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