Elizabeth Dove
dal 22/9/2014 al 30/1/2015
Segnalato da
22/9/2014
Elizabeth Dove
Missoula Art Museum, Missoula
Corpus of the Unknowable. The artist incorporates text into her graphic works as a way of exploring memory and knowledge.
This intimate exhibition of nine works from the Corpus of the Unknowable series was created in 2004 by Elizabeth Dove, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Montana. Dove incorporates text into her graphic works as a way of exploring memory and knowledge. She states, “I have been cutting up a dictionary for several years now, letter by letter, and saving the definitions to use in artwork. Corpus of the Unknowable displays about a hundred of these cut-up definitions; each print holding text dust behind a skin-like surface. Selecting dictionary definitions and then cutting them up talks about a perpetual search for meaning, the patient digestion of enormous qualities of information in an effort to understand, the impossibility of stabilizing knowledge…”
The works that are made of collage, collagraph, and cut-up dictionaries will be featured in the Goldberg Family Library. They were accessioned into the MAM Collection through a generous gift from the artist. MAM is grateful that direct gifts to the museum’s collection from practicing artists helps the MAM Collection grow.
Contact: For more information, please contact the Missoula Art Museum at 406.728.0447, visit the MAM website at www.missoulaartmuseum.org or contact Stephen Glueckert, Senior Exhibitions Curator, stevegl@missoulaartmuseum.org, 406.728.0447 x226.
Missoula Art Museum
335 North Pattee - Missoula, Montana
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