toothy zip (neon:ochre)
Artist:
Liz Trosper
(American, born 1983)
Date: 2019
Medium: UV inkjet print on canvas
Dimensions:
102 × 74 in. (259.1 × 188 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of the artist and Barry Whistler Gallery
Object number: 2020.6
Copyright: © Liz Trosper
Provenance: Donated by the artist's dealer.
Exhibition History: Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, 2020.
Published References
Lana Meador and Suzanne Weaver, Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art, San Antonio Museum of Art: 2020, 49.
Label Text
Conflating painting and the digital image, Liz Trosper’s “scanner paintings” embrace technology to challenge the medium of painting and its associations with the heroic male artist. Assemblages of detritus found around the artist’s studio—from dried skeins of paint to scraps of canvas—along with cut-outs from lifestyle magazines are arranged on the bed of a scanner, purposefully shifted during the process, and realized as digital prints, dissolving the distinction between painting and photography. The blurs and blips from movement during the scan speak to the ever-present glitches in the digital age, a breach of communication and information flow. While Trosper’s tubular cords of paint evoke the physical, gestural abstraction of mid-twentieth century painting—such as Jackson Pollock’s drips—her process highlights the ubiquity of digital screens, which in a disturbing way, distances us from our feelings, senses, and connectedness to the human touch.
(Suzanne Weaver, 2020)
(Suzanne Weaver, 2020)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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