Untitled / Ernestine Ruben

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Accession Number
2009/1.469.1-7
Title
Untitled
Artist Nationality
American
Artist Life Dates
born 1931
Medium and Support
inkjet prints on fabric
Object Creation Date
2009
Object Creation Place
North and Central America (continent)
United States (nation)
Creation Place 2
United States (nation)
Dimensions
392.43 cm x 111.76 cm (154 1/2 in. x 44 in.)
Century
21st century
Primary Object Classification
Photograph
Primary Object Type
abstract
Secondary Object Classification
Mixed Media
Secondary Object Type
installation art
Physical Description
This work consists of seven photographic prints on semi-transparent fabric, gradually increasing in length, that hang from the sloping ceiling of a stairway in the Frankel Wing. Each panel of fabric has a different image including, craggy rocks, tree branches against the sky, sunlight reflecting on water and marshland, flames of fire and cloud like formations. Four are black and white images and the three others are color prints.
Subject Matter
These seven banners were created for the new Frankel wing of the museum and installed in the stairway between the second and third floors. Ruben's experimental approach to photography, with printing on semi-transparent fabric and sharp cropping of the images, creates a complex layered work in which multiple views reveal themselves as the viewer moves down the stairs. Though the subject of these scenes is naturalistic - rocks, water, fire, vegetation- there is an abstract quality to these forms.
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2009/1.469.1-7
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-1.469.1-7/1

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"Untitled; Ernestine Ruben." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-1.469.1-7/1. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.
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