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Dorothea Rockburne , b. Oct 18, 1932
printed by Jeryl Parker

Plate 5

1972-1975
30 in. x 39 3/4 in. (76.2 cm x 100.97 cm)

Medium and Support: Relief etching and aquatint on folded paper

Credit Line: Gift of Henry R. Silverman, by exchange

Accession Number: 1983.46.5

Commentary

Gallery label from Light/Dark, White/Black, January 17 - July 31, 2016

Dorothea Rockburne began her artistic career as a sculptor in the late 1960s, following the heyday of the Minimalist movement. In her print series Locus, Rockburne approaches white with reductivist intentions and uses it as a means of highlighting the intricacies of form. Folding the paper into seemingly random, yet precisely calculated, shapes before running them through the etching press, she created hybrid works that not only manifest on both sides of the paper, but also blur the boundaries between prints and sculpture. While each of the six etchings is an independent piece, together they form a complex spatial system—as alluded to by the title, Locus—which, due to the monochromatic blankness of the composition, is entirely self-referential.

Kelley Tialiou
Charles H. Sawyer Curatorial Assistant | Librarian | Archivist

Exhibition List

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

The Structured Surface: The Impact of Minimalism in the Graphic Arts Worcester Art Museum , 3/31/1992 - 6/21/1992
Contemporary American Prints from the Addison Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 4/23/1994 - 7/31/1994
Tracing the Sublime Addison Gallery of American Art , 12/16/2003 - 3/21/2004
Then and Now Addison Gallery of American Art , 5/10/2008 - 7/13/2008

Related Parent(s) Click a record to view

Locus
1983.46.1-6

Related Siblings(s) Click a record to view

Plate 1
1983.46.1

Plate 2
1983.46.2

Plate 3
1983.46.3

Plate 4
1983.46.4

Plate 6
1983.46.6

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Themes: MLC Portfolio: Visualizing Math

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