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Palm, 2015

  • Artist

    Eric N. Mack

  • Title

    Palm

  • Date

    2015

  • Medium

    Dye on bleached cotton, silk, felt, with metal armature, wood, decorative palm fronds, and paper

  • Dimensions

    77 × 77 × 38 in. (195.6 × 195.6 × 96.5 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee

  • Object Number

    2015.16

Eric N. Mack uses textiles pulled from a variety of sources to create compositions that live between painting and architecture. Palm borrows from the language of painting. Its gestural movement takes cues from Abstract Expressionism, a mid-twentieth-century painting movement that emphasized action and improvisation. At the same time, an informal architecture is found in the way in which the work is casually attached to the wall and supported by a piece of wood. In joining the two art forms, Mack modifies both, making architecture something active and malleable and painting a space the viewer can move within an inhabitable space.


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Artworks

Palm, 2015

  • Artist

    Eric N. Mack

  • Title

    Palm

  • Date

    2015

  • Medium

    Dye on bleached cotton, silk, felt, with metal armature, wood, decorative palm fronds, and paper

  • Dimensions

    77 × 77 × 38 in. (195.6 × 195.6 × 96.5 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee

  • Object Number

    2015.16

Eric N. Mack uses textiles pulled from a variety of sources to create compositions that live between painting and architecture. Palm borrows from the language of painting. Its gestural movement takes cues from Abstract Expressionism, a mid-twentieth-century painting movement that emphasized action and improvisation. At the same time, an informal architecture is found in the way in which the work is casually attached to the wall and supported by a piece of wood. In joining the two art forms, Mack modifies both, making architecture something active and malleable and painting a space the viewer can move within an inhabitable space.


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