Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Puretz, Deborah |
Title |
Opening the Kimono (olive) |
Medium |
Intaglio on paper, 9/16 |
Date |
2000 |
Description |
Deborah Puretz (1954; lives and works in San Francisco) Opening the Kimono (olive), 2000 Intaglio on paper, 9/16 22 1/2 x 14 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2003 gift of Eleanor Creekmore Dickinson Puretz is a mid-career artist from San Jose, CA. She studied art at San Jose St., SF Institute of Art; Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle. Her work is in several private, corporate and museum collections, including the SF Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fresno Art Museum and the San Jose Museum of Art, which exhibited 11 prints from this series recently and acquired 3 of them. Her work is distinctive in that she uses computer microchips as the central vehicle for her prints. She produces the prints directly on the microchips as if copper plates. The microchip image is one that has become deeply linked to our culture, and symbolizes machines that process the information that shapes contemporary life. For Puretz, the microchips symbolize "metaphors of memory" that reflect the human mind as it processes, stores and retrieves info. She is also interested in the form of the chips and its similarity to mandalas, as if digital paths to self-realization. Her use of the microchip as a central image seems appropriate given that she's from Silicon Valley and her previous career was with International Data Corporation. Opening the Kimono refers to a common phrase in the semiconductor industry, which means to disclose trade secrets. The V suggests the opening of a kimono. |
Catalog Number |
2003.02.01 |
Search Terms |
Intaglio prints Prints Paper Kimonos Women Artists |
Credit line |
Gift of Eleanor Creekmore Dickinson |