Cantilever
Artist:
Marcia Gygli King
(American, 1931 - 2011)
Date: 1980
Dimensions:
72 x 70 in. (182.9 x 177.8 cm)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Object number: 2008.7
Copyright: © Estate of Marcia Gygli King
Label Text
"In 1979 when I moved to SoHo, the area was
still industrial. Kovacs Lights was across the
street, and I could watch the piece workers while
they assembled the lamps. To try to experience
the monotony of their jobs, I began to repetitiously
dot all the furniture in my loft with paint. Day in
and day out I dotted. Running out of furniture, I
made dot paintings."
Marcia Gygli King
King's sculptural painting was created during a period when artists were breaking down traditional distinctions among mediums, and many were blurring the lines between conventional notions of painting and sculpture. This work, which has elements of both mediums, was inspired by the obsessive and monotonous activities of industrial laborers. In its process and formal vocabulary, however, it reveals King's interest in a new Feminist aesthetic that was taking shape at the time, characterized by patterns like those commonly found in fabrics, quilts, wallpaper, and other formats traditionally associated with domesticity or the craft arts.
(Label Text 2008)
still industrial. Kovacs Lights was across the
street, and I could watch the piece workers while
they assembled the lamps. To try to experience
the monotony of their jobs, I began to repetitiously
dot all the furniture in my loft with paint. Day in
and day out I dotted. Running out of furniture, I
made dot paintings."
Marcia Gygli King
King's sculptural painting was created during a period when artists were breaking down traditional distinctions among mediums, and many were blurring the lines between conventional notions of painting and sculpture. This work, which has elements of both mediums, was inspired by the obsessive and monotonous activities of industrial laborers. In its process and formal vocabulary, however, it reveals King's interest in a new Feminist aesthetic that was taking shape at the time, characterized by patterns like those commonly found in fabrics, quilts, wallpaper, and other formats traditionally associated with domesticity or the craft arts.
(Label Text 2008)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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