Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Oliver, Marilene |
Title |
Family Portrait (Mum and Dad) |
Medium |
Bronze ink screen-printed on acrylic sheets, edition 4/6 |
Date |
2003 |
Description |
Marilène Oliver (London, England 1977; lives and works in Alberta, Canada) Family Portrait (Mum and Dad), 2003 Bronze ink screen-printed on acrylic sheets, edition 4/6 75 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2015 purchase with funds provided by KMA Collectors Circle and partial gift of the artist British artist Marilène Oliver constructs provocative portraits of her family in the form of prints based on dozens of digital medical scans taken from head to toe. Family Portrait (Mum and Dad) was made by screen printing cross sectional MRI scans taken every inch onto sheets of clear acrylic and then stacking the sheets in order to construct an entirely new form of digital age portraiture. Oliver's interest in taking this approach was to explore "the notion of preservation and resurrection, and also to question the role/future of the body in an increasingly disembodied, digital age. By laying bare the mechanical digitization of the body on sheets of clear acrylic my aim was to expose the gaps, the loss, the trappings of the formal mechanisms but also the magic; the promise that we can be everywhere and nowhere, potentially anytime and forever." |
Catalog Number |
2015.06.01 |
Search Terms |
Copper Screen prints Sculpture Prints Portraits Mothers Fathers Family Women Artists |
Credit line |
purchase with funds provided by KMA Collectors Circle and partial gift of the artist |