WBRC

Sonja Rieger

  • Titles WBRC (Proper)
  • Artist Sonja Rieger, American, born 1953
  • Medium Cibachrome print
  • Dimensions mount: 22 1/2 × 18 1/2 in. (57.2 × 47 cm) sheet: 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm) image: 19 × 15 1/8 in. (48.3 × 38.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Hagefstration, AFI.184.2020
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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The painting's foreground is reddish pink. A red "horizon" line delineates this section and a pale pink background. A linear arrangement of Images/objects stand at the horizon. Most are recognizable and recurrent Guston objects: a pair of skinny, upturned legs in hobnail shoes, a knife blade, portion of a brick chimney or wall, a tool handle, the back of a stretched, oval canvas. Other areas are simply shapes or areas of paint. A red-outlined rectangle hovers at the painting's top left. Rendered in a palate of queasy rose and gray with punches of green, orange, and ochre, this cryptic configuration is compositionally direct, like a comic panel.
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