COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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ArtArtHiAAH~7~7
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0001231
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aahi0001231
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Work Title (display):
Seven Earths
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1995
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2008-02-08
Work Creator (display):
Matthew Ritchie (English, born 1964)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Matthew Ritchie was born in London, England in 1964, and lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from Camberwell School of Art, London, and attended Boston University. His artistic mission has been no less ambitious than an attempt to represent the entire universe and the structures of knowledge and belief that we use to understand and visualize it. Ritchie's encyclopedic project (continually expanding and evolving like the universe itself) stems from his imagination, and is catalogued in a conceptual chart replete with allusions drawn from Judaeo-Christian religion, occult practices, Gnostic traditions, and scientific elements and principles. Ritchie's paintings, installations, and narrative threads delineate the universe's formation as well as the attempts and limits of human consciousness to comprehend its vastness. Ritchie's work deals explicitly with the idea of information being 'on the surface', and information is also the subject of his work. Although often described as a painter, Ritchie creates works on paper, prints, light-box drawings, floor-to-wall installations, freestanding sculpture, web sites, and short stories which tie his sprawling works together into a narrative structure. Drawing is central to his work. He scans his drawings into the computer so that images can be blown up, taken apart, made smaller or three-dimensional, re-shaped, transformed into digital games, or given to someone else to execute. One ongoing work that Ritchie calls an endless drawing contains everything he has drawn before. Ritchie's work has been shown in one-person exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; MASS MoCA; SFMoMA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, among others. His work was also exhibited at the Whitney Biennial (1997), Sydney Biennale (2002), and São Paulo Bienale (2004). (PBS Art21 Accessed 2008-02-06)
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:
mythology, contemporary
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mythology, contemporary
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Work Subject:
body parts
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body parts
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Work Subject:
science
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science
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Work Worktype:
oil paintings
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oil paintings
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
oil and marker on canvas
Work Measurements (display):
60 in (H) x 84 in (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Basilico Fine Arts
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
gallery
Work Location (Geographic) name:
New York, New York
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Whitney Museum of American Art. Biennial exhibition. The Museum in association with W.W. Norton & Co, 1997.
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Whitney Museum of American Art. Biennial exhibition. The Museum in association with W.W. Norton & Co, 1997.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
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):
© Matthew Ritchie
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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