Female Head (Blue)/Red Peppers (With Path)

Details

John Baldessari (b. 1931)
Female Head (Blue)/Red Peppers (With Path)
oil tinted gelatin silver print and chromogenic print, in metal frame; acrylic wash and photocopy transfer on handmade paper, in metal frame; oil on rubber mounted on aluminum and oil on Masonite laid down on Formica, in four parts
overall: 79 ¼ x 88 ¼ in. (201.3 x 224.2 cm.)
Executed in 1992.

Provenance

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

E. Earle, "Back East and Out West: California and the Tradition of the New," Breda Foto, July 1994, pp. 4-9.
S. Jhaveri, ed., Western Artists and India: Creative Inspirations in Art and Design, London, 2013, p. 144 (illustrated).
R. Dean and P. Pardo, eds., John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 3: 1987-1993, New Haven, 2015, p. 369, no. 1992.9 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, John Baldessari: New Work, May-June 1992.
Breda, De Beyerd, Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst, Los Angeles Mind Quakes: John Baldessari and 35 Artists from Los Angeles, July-September 1994, p. 9 (illustrated).

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"I’m interested in what gets us to stop and look as opposed to simply consuming images passively. If there is anything political in my work then it is to be found in the ability of my images to question the nature of imagery itself." — John Baldessari

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