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San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of ArtPace, a foundation for contemporary art / San Antonio, to the Margaret Pace Willson Collection of Contemporary Art.

Poison Amor

San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of ArtPace, a foundation for contemporary art / San Antonio, to the Margaret Pace Willson Collection of Contemporary Art.
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of ArtPace, a foundation for contemporary art / San Antonio, to the Margaret Pace Willson Collection of Contemporary Art.
Contact us at copyright@samuseum.org for rights and reproduction of this image. © Terry Allen and James Drake

Poison Amor

Designer: (American, born 1946)
Designer: (American, born 1943)
Date: 1993
Medium: Wool
Dimensions:
with fringe: 57 3/4 × 100 in. (146.7 × 254 cm)
without fringe: 57 3/4 × 85 1/2 in. (146.7 × 217.2 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of ArtPace, a foundation for contemporary art / San Antonio, to the Margaret Pace Willson Collection of Contemporary Art
Object number: 2001.37
Copyright: © Terry Allen © James Drake
Label Text
A collaborative work, Terry Allen and James Drake created a drawing that was the basis for this tapestry, which was produced by weavers in Oaxaca, Mexico. Both artists grew up in west Texas and draw upon their experience of the borderlands between Texas and Mexico in their work. Combining disparate text and imagery—including a monkey holding a bouquet of roses and the words “Poison” and “Amor” (“love” in Spanish)—Allen and Drake explore tensions between beauty and danger.
(Lana Meador, 2020)
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