Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Hess, Jean |
Title |
Found Lines 7 |
Medium |
Acrylic, ink, graphite, dry metallic pigment, paper collage [deconstructed |
Date |
2008 |
Description |
Jean Hess (Baltimore 1946; lives and works in Knoxville) Found Lines 7, 2008 Acrylic, ink, graphite, dry metallic pigment, paper collage [deconstructed and re-mixed images of children's marks left in antique school books], resin on birch panel 31 x 31 x 2 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2014 gift of the artist Hess is a Knoxville-based artist who creates complex collage paintings dealing with memory. Most are made up of fragments from eclectic sources such as topographical charts, children's writings, and the natural landscape. For her "Found Lines" series she uses old school books as records of a lost time of innocence. The surface of each work is intricately gridded with small square fragments of writings, which are randomly rearranged. |
Catalog Number |
2014.10.01 |
Search Terms |
Paintings Acrylic paintings Ink drawings Women Artists Books Wood Birches Collage |
Credit line |
gift of the artist |