VIEW IN MY ROOM
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Collage, Photo on Other
Size: 20 W x 32 H x 2 D in
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WHAT THE MIRROR SAW (1867-1941) is a mixed media work, 32x20x2, from award-winning artitst Peter J. Ketchum. Made with a broken mirror (I broke it by accident) and shards of the mirror glass. I added found b&w photos which were enlarged, cut out (exacto knife) and colored with photo dyes, acrylics, Prisma markers, etc. In this broken mirror, you can see reflected yourself and some real people who lived sometime between 1867 and 1941. Oh, Jesus is there too. But he's an actor from early a 1900s Passion play. He's here to represent the love one another thing. The words in red are a loose take on 1 Corinthians 13:12. Made even more colloquial, they might say maybe we don't see each other clearly because the mirrors broke. If only we could see each other face to face. What if we had a real life gathering. Hello, nice to meet you. Then we'd get to know each other better. We might still not want to be best friends. But at least we're talking. Face to face. People of color. White people. Gay people. Old people. Teenagers. You know, a real meet and greet. Ha! If only. How did the project got underway after I broke the old family mirror? I was thinking of the long line of mostly family members who had actually looked into the mirror over a century and a half. What did they see? And how diverse were the people who reflected in the mirror hanging in the WASP’s nest? Probably not very. Maybe a Catholic maid or other hired help. What if I created diversity for the mirror? And so it went until the mirror more broadly reflected the world. If only.
Original Created:2018
Subjects:Culture
Collage:Photo on Other
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:20 W x 32 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
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Ships From:United States.
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From the New York Times:"Peter J. Ketchum knows how to get the viewer's attention. Shown widely around the country, his pictures commingle colors, people, situations, commentary and mediums in a manner that is provocative, funny and to the point. Attempts to pigeonhole the work as Pop, folk, cartoon, mixedmedia, collage, anthropomorphic, or merely strange tend to fall short of the mark!" Five works were included in 35 Artists of North America, curated by Thomas Krens, former director of the Guggenheim Museum. Ketchum received a degree in fine arts from Colby College and did additional study at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. He studied privately with George Baer. The New York City based artist's work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute, The Norfolk History Museum and Colby. It has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, The Bushnell, The Springfield Museum of Fine Art, and The Discovery Museum. The artist has shown in solo and group shows in Boston and NYC, including Exit Art, Lumina, SOHO 20, HERE, the Williamsburg (Brooklyn) Art Center, Real Artways,the Charter Oak Cultural Center and TNC Gallery. Curators and/or gallery owners who have shown his work include Ethan and Ivan Karp (OK Harris, NYC), Susan Dunne (Pace NYC), John Klein (The Aldrich Museum) and Matthew Druitt (The Guggenheim.) www.peterjketchum.com www.saatchionline.com/PeterKetchum
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