After
Grant Wood (American Gothic) 3, 2010
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I am interested in the link between art and technology, how the eyes prioritize, and reality as a subjective experience vs. an absolute truth. As a visual artist, I cannot think of a topic more stimulating and yet so basic, than the act of seeing--how the human brain makes sense of the visual world. -- Devorah Sperber, 2005 |
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Medium:
4,392 spools of thread, stainless steel ball chain and hanging apparatus,
clear acrylic sphere, metal stand Dimensions: 107 x 90 inches (thread only) x 120 inches depth (viewing sphere location) |
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Detail of thread spools (each spool 1 3/4" h) | ||||||
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funding by Coats and Clark Devorah Sperber is a New York-based artist whose sculptures, composed of thousands of ordinary objects, negotiate a terrain between low and high tech. Her labor-intensive works explore repetition and the effects of digital technology on perception, scale, and subjective reality. -Patricia Phillips, Executive Editor, Art Journal |
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