Detail View: Art and Art History Student Work:
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Image File Name:
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vrc_20150112_014
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Image Record ID:
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aahi0013211
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Work Title (display):
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Queering LeWitt
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Image Title:
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full view
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Image Title:
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installation view
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Work Description:
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Thesis abstract: Queering LeWitt is a body of work that questions the history of minimal and conceptual art. It is my re-creation of minimal and conceptual art pioneer Sol LeWitt’s 1974 piece, Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes. LeWitt's original piece presents 122 wooden structures that explore the systematic combination of lines that create an incomplete open cube. My re-creation out of ceramics infuses LeWitt’s clean structures with touch, highlighting the presence of the maker. Using craft, queer, and affect theory, I position my work as an act of queering. I argue that LeWitt’s piece serves as cognitive map to locate the logical delineation of form. In this way, it serves to promise the viewer the ability to create a complete sense of understanding. LeWitt’s work serves as a metaphor for rigid systems that disavow the importance of the subjective and emotive. I posit that there is space within Sol LeWitt’s work for empathy, and my remaking of his work emphasizes this potential. I see this act as a form of disidentification, where history is both acknowledged and questioned. Queering LeWitt begs the viewer to look at minimal and conceptual art under a new light. This shifts the context under which people will view his work. By inserting the hand, the touched, the felt into LeWitt’s work, I question the tenets of his work and renew the role of the hand in contemporary art.
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Work Dates (display):
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2014
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Work Dates type:
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creation
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Work Creator (display):
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Joshua Hebbert (American, born 1987)
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Work Creator gender:
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
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Written thesis: https://aahvrc.colorado.edu/luna/servlet/s/m4442c
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Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
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MFA 2014, Art and Art History
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Work Creator memberOf:
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Ceramics student, Art and Art History, CU Boulder
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Work Creator memberOf notes:
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IMAP: Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices
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Work Worktype:
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ceramics (objects)
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Work Worktype:
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oil paintings
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Work Worktype:
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installations (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
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installations (exhibitions)
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Work Worktype:
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
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paintings
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Work Category (VRC classification):
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ceramics
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Work Category (VRC classification):
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sculptures and installations
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Work Material and Technique (display):
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ceramics, wood, graphite, oil, paper
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Work Measurements (display):
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Platform: 1 ft (H) x 18 ft (W) x 10 ft (D); North wall: 8 ft (H) x 10 ft (W); East wall: 8 ft (H) x 19 ft (W); Each ceramic piece: approximately 8.5 in (H) x 8.5 in (W); each drawing: 12 in (H) x 12 in (W)
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Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
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University of Colorado, Boulder. Art Museum
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Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
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exhibition
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Work Location (Geographic) name:
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Boulder, Colorado
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Image Rights (display):
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© Joshua Hebbert
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Work Rights (display):
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© Joshua Hebbert
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Holding Institution:
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Collection:
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Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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Collection info and contact:
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