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Oscar Palacio , b. Jan 2, 1970

Grass Over Asphalt

2002
19 1/2 in. x 23 1/2 in. (49.53 cm x 59.69 cm)

Medium and Support: Chromogenic print

Credit Line: Gift of the artist in memory of Hugo Jaramillo

Accession Number: 2006.35

Commentary

Exposing the often, incongruous ways in which human settlement merges with nature, Oscar Palacio’s photographs explore our ongoing attempts to screen out the wild while paradoxically adopting more orderly, manufactured facsimiles of the very nature we seek to cast out. In Grass over Asphalt, the earth—as well as the insects and water it contains—is covered over with black tar only to be re-covered with carefully cut strips of sod to create a “natural,” albeit much tidier lawn.

Exhibition List

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Unfamiliar Territory: Photographs by Oscar Palacio Addison Gallery of American Art , 9/6/2005 - 1/1/2006
In Focus: 75 Years of Collecting American Photography Addison Gallery of American Art , 4/28/2006 - 7/31/2006
The American Landscape or The Americans' Landscape? [Phillips Academy Art 300] Addison Gallery of American Art , 5/29/2008 - 7/13/2008
80 @ 80 Addison Gallery of American Art , 10/15/2011 - 12/31/2011
Contemplating the View: American Landscape Photographs Addison Gallery of American Art , 9/8/2018 - 3/3/2019

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