Alaskan Mine Piece
- Title
- Alaskan Mine Piece
- LC Subject
- Acrylic painting Painting, Abstract Painting paintings (visual works) painting (image-making) mixed media acrylic paint
- Creator
- Cushwa-Blake, Nancy
- Description
- A geometric abstraction done in monochromatic blue. A piece used in the work was caked with clay and found around an abandoned mine near Juneau, Alaska. N. Cushwa Blake; acrylic and found object on paper; 26x33 inches; alaska mine piece The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
- Location
- Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs >> Marion County >> Oregon >> United States Marion County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 700 Summer St. N. E., Salem Oregon
- Award Date
- 1981
- Identifier
- 1983_salem_vet-affairs-bldg_02_a01
- Accession Number
- 1983_salem_vet-affairs-bldg_02_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Cushwa-Blake, Nancy
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 26 x 33 inches
- Material
- Painting; Mixed media acrylic; silver pencil; found objects on 100% rag watercolor paper
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1983 Veteran's Affairs Building, Salem Oregon 1983_salem_vet-affairs-bldg
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- This piece is about structure-overt and implied-about surfaces and hints of what is below the surface. Objects that have been changed by time- and undecipherable messages. I am very interested in history and archeology -- I'm drawn to the artifacts, the clues that hint at their former existence but never reveal their whole story ; clues that have been altered by layers of time. In this piece I've included a metal grid encrusted with grey clay that I found near an old mine in Alaska. I like the grid because it want' perfect; it became a metaphor for containment and escape, or, for lack of perfection. The rest of the painting echoes the metal grid and has overlays of paint with parts of underlayers exposed - never revealing the whole - grey for the chilling Alaskan sky. (Cushwa-Blake, 1983)
