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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0004092
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Work Title (display):
Feeder 2
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1998
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2009-03-09
Work Creator (display):
Nayland Blake (American, born 1960)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American sculptor, installation artist and curator. After studying for his BFA at Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY, he attended the California Institute of Arts in Valencia, CA, graduating with an MFA in 1984. His early works were often presented in vitrines like pseudo-Victorian artefacts, as in Natural History 1 (1987; see 1990 exh. cat., p. 42), a turtle with 'hysteria' written on its belly. As his work progressed Blake replaced the mock-historic veneer with clinical assemblages of medical instruments and objects of ambiguous function, often with sado-masochistic overtones. Work Station #4 (1989; Rubell priv. col., see 1990 exh. cat., p. 49), with its selection of sponge covered probes, flasks and carefully folded blankets, is an example of this phase. Working within a vocabulary that expressed the body as being defined through ritual, Blake presented sculptural installations that invoke a human presence and interaction; in particular the tension of the gay male body threatened by AIDS and attempts to codify identity and desire in the wake of the disease. In the 1990s Blake was also active as a curator. One of his most significant exhibitions was In a Different Light (1996; Los Angeles, UCLA), which aimed to 'explore the resonance of gay and lesbian experience in 20th-century American art'. It included work by both gay and straight artists working across the century, linking works without ghettoizing by sexuality, time or medium. Blake's own work during this decade became concerned with the figure of the rabbit or bunny as a way of thinking through both stereotypes of gay identity and his own position as an American of mixed race. One such work, Bunny Group, Happiness (19967) featured as part of his online exhibition in 1997. (Catherine M. Grant. "Blake, Nayland." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 18 Mar. 2009 .)
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 1995
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Work Subject:
senses
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senses
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Work Subject:
fairy tales
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fairy tales
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false
Work Subject:
childhood
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childhood
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false
Work Subject:
memory
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memory
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false
Work Subject:
houses
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houses
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false
Work Subject:
processes
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processes
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Work Subject:
food
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food
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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false
Work Material and Technique (display):
gingerbread, steel
Work Measurements (display):
84 in (H) x 120 in (W) x 84 in (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
private collection
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-0-7148-4314-8
Image Source Reproduction page number:
211
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
215
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Nayland Blake
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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