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Etching XIV Variation 1

Etching XIV Variation 1

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Jackie Karuti

Jackie Karuti was already an experienced artist when she began experimenting with aquatint following a printmaking master class with artist Peterson Kamwathi in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2018. This print is part of a series titled “A Set of Etchings Produced While Thinking About Fossils.” Using aquatint (a tonal printing process), the contrast of light objects against gradations of dark backgrounds creates a whimsical effect that suggests a search for imaginative ways of being. A TV set on a firm upright stand in one print offers a space for dreaming, but when the old-fashioned box floats unmoored in a body of water in another print, the dream topples. The tall stool, flying ants’ wings, and television sets (all found in this set of four prints) have become Karuti’s most potent motifs.
Artist
Jackie Karuti
(Kenyan, b. 1987)
Title
Etching XIV Variation 1
Date
2018
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
3 15/16 x 3 15/16 in. image
Credit
J. David and Laura Seefried Horsfall Endowment Fund purchase
Accession No.
2023.2.1
Classification
Prints
Geography
Kenya

Related

February 2023, sold by Circle Art Gallery (Nairobi, Kenya) to the Chazen Museum of Art

  • Chazen Museum of Art. "Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection." Madison, WI: Regents to the University of Wisconsin System and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2023. pp. 82-83, cat. no. 37d

  • Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 9/5/2023–12/23/2023

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