Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Lux, Loretta |
Title |
The Rose Garden |
Medium |
Ilfachrome print, edition of 20 |
Date |
2001 |
Description |
Loretta Lux (Dresden, Germany 1969; lives and works in Dublin, Ireland) The Rose Garden, 2001 Ilfachrome print, edition of 20 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2005 gift from the collection of Marie and Bob Alcorn in memory of her parents, Catherine C. and S. Frank Fowler Originally trained as a painter, Loretta Lux creates photographic portraits that explore notions of artificiality, alienation, and human fragility. In a series of child portraits, she creates painted backdrops for each child, and then digitally enhances facial features, lighting, and other details in order to create an impression of isolation and displacement. |
Catalog Number |
2005.03.01 |
Search Terms |
Photographs Color photographs Girls Children Women Artists |
Credit line |
Gift of Marie and Bob Alcorn in memory of her parents, Catherine and S. Frank Fowler |