Photoshop CS: 110 by 72 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Russell's Rainbow" (turn transparency off), mousedown y=9300 x=14550, mouseup y=9300 x=19000
2010
Cory Arcangel's photographic work created using Photoshop's default gradient tool, blurring boundaries between digital creation, painting, and sculpture. The piece questions traditional medium definitions through its hybrid nature.
- Medium
- ‘It’s a photograph because it’s photographic paper. But obviously I think about them as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting, right? I also have to think about them as sculptures… because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they’re also kind of ready-mades’ (Cory Arcangel, quoted in Mary Heilmann, ‘Cory Arcangel’,
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
June 27, 2018
Artists in conversation
Wade Guyton
American · b. 1972
Guyton similarly uses digital tools like Epson inkjet printers to produce large scale works that blur the boundaries between painting, printmaking, and digital art, questioning what constitutes a painting in the age of software and mechanical reproduction.
Kelley Walker
American · b. 1969
Walker appropriates and digitally manipulates existing images using commercial software to create works that exist ambiguously between photography, painting, and conceptual art, interrogating the status of the art object in a digital context.
Seth Price
American · b. 1973
Price creates works using digital and industrial production methods that similarly collapse traditional medium categories into hybrid objects, questioning authenticity and the readymade within a framework of new media and conceptual practice.
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