Untitled / Steve Keister
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.236
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Steve Keister
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- (1949 - )
- Medium and Support
- gouache on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1998
- Object Creation Place
- North America
- American
- Creation Place 1
- North America
- Creation Place 2
- American
- Style/Group/Movement
- neo-surrealism
- Period
- Modern and contemporary
- Dimensions
- 24 cm x 32 cm (9 7/16 in. x 12 5/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- study
- Secondary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Secondary Object Type
- study
- Physical Description
- Drawing on spiral sketchbook paper in terra cotta and ivory gouache with graphite pencil.
- Subject Matter
- “Over the past 15 years, the sculptor Steve Keister has amassed an authoritative knowledge of Olmec, Maya and Toltec sculpture, owing primarily to his annual visits to archeological sites in Mexico and Central America. Using castings of consumer-product packaging and information from his fieldwork and digital photographic notes, his works establish a strange limbo of suspended signifiers. Meso-American figuration is repositioned in the present, relieved of its sacral deployment....” (Joe Fyfe, “Steve Keister at feature,” Art in America, Feb 2008)
- Primary Keywords
- ceramics
- drawing (image-making)
- earthenware
- latin america (general region)
- native american
- sketches
- south american
- terracottas
- Secondary Keywords
- american regions
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- the americas
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3429 x 2591
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 2008/2.236
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.236/2008_2_236.jpg
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"Untitled; Steve Keister." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.236/2008_2_236.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
