"'With her latest project, Karen Hanmer has created an archetype of all the family oil paintings that hung above the couches of our childhood. Not a drop of irony stains the languid shorelines and gauzy, cloud-flecked skies that fill the pages of this inviting book. Hanmer instead chooses to treat her subject with a candid reverence that raises intriguing questions about how we assign value to the objects that circumscribe our lives and how memory impacts that process.' Vera Scekic, Chicago painter and curator."-- Artist's website, http://www.karenhanmer.com/gallery/piece.php?gallery=newwork&p=Fragments_Capri, viewed November 16, 2011. "When this view of the island of Capri overlooking the Gulf of Naples is divided into eight equal portions, each portion still reads as a horizon. A fragmented walk through the landscape may also function as metaphor for memory, and the unanswered questions that elude memory. "--Artist's website, http://www.karenhanmer.com/gallery/piece.php?gallery=newwork&p=Fragments_Capri, viewed November 16, 2011. An edition of 30. Library copy is 7 of 30. IaU Spine title. The painting that hung over the bookmaker's sofa in her childhood home was photographed, digitally printed actual size (pigment inkjet prints), deconstructed and bound.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)761222455
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.