Photoshop CS: 110 by 72 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Russell's Rainbow" (turn transparency off), mousedown y=25300 x=17600, mouse up y=4300 x=17600
Cory Arcangel's work presents a luminous vertical gradient dissolving from deep violet through blues and greens to warm yellow, its precise chromatic transitions generated entirely by Photoshop's default "Russell's Rainbow" preset. The title functions simultaneously as both artwork and technical instruction, laying bare the exact digital parameters — canvas dimensions, resolution, and mouse coordinates — that produced the image, collapsing the distance between process and product. Existing in the ambiguous space between painting, photograph, and sculpture, the work interrogates the conventions of how images are made, categorized, and displayed, proposing the software itself as both medium and readymade.
- Medium
- ‘Is it a painting or is it a photograph? Technically it’s a photograph. 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 every part of the process is part of the project. They’re 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 an interview by Mary Heilmann www.interviewmagazine.com/art/cory-arcangel/ accessed 09/09/2015)
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
October 14, 2015
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