Vik Muniz: "Pictures of Pigment"
February 19, 2009—March 28, 2009 | Reception Thursday, February 19th, 6-8PM
Working within the syntax of photography, Muniz creates work that is not just simple photographs. In his Pictures of Pigment, the artist carefully reconstructs well-known paintings by carefully piling up layers of brilliant powdered pigment onto a flat surface. Once the construction is complete, it is photographed. Although the resulting photographic image is the endgame of the artist’s process, it is also the making of the object that reveals the core of the the artist’s practice.
Vik Muniz, "The Oak at Flagey, after Gustave Courbet" 2007
Chromogenic Print
43 1/2 x 53 1/2 inches
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Chromogenic Print
43 1/2 x 53 1/2 inches
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Vik Muniz, "Evening in the Woods, after Grandma Moses" 2006
Chromogenic Print
53 1/2 x 43 inches
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Chromogenic Print
53 1/2 x 43 inches
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Vik Muniz, "The Icebergs, after Frederic E. Church" 2007
Chromogenic Print
43 1/2 x 73 1/2 inches
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Chromogenic Print
43 1/2 x 73 1/2 inches
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