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Dialogue with Lady in Pink

Liliana Porter

Dialogue with Lady in Pink
2020
Acrylic paint and found metal figurine on found book

8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches (21.6 x 14 x 4.4 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated on reverse
(Inventory #33164)

Liliana Porter found two depictions of females. One is a small figurine and the other is the image on the cover of a book. What happens when they are placed together? Do they talk? If so, what do they say? How do they deal with their differences (scale, medium, age, etc.)? Where did they each come from? Can they help each other? These are unanswerable questions and, on one hand, they are absurd. On the other, they provide an opportunity to think freely and deeply about human interactions and material culture. The artist has adhered the two depictions together and then casually painted the assemblage so as to bring them into the same space. Porter suggests that the absurdity can actually be the key to let one think deeply and she has been doing just that for the sixty years of her long and storied arc as an artist.

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Born in Argentina, 1941. Resides in New York since 1964.

Liliana Porter works in various mediums including printmaking, works on canvas, photography, video, installations and public art projects. Porter was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980, three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (1985, 1996, 1999), the Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship (1994) and seven PSC- CUNY research awards (from 1994 to 2004).
Professor at Queens College, City University of New York, from 1991 to 2007.

Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and is represented in many public and private collections, among them:
TATE Modern Collection, London, UK;
Museum of Modern Art, New York;
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela;
Philadelphia Museum of Art;
La Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France;
The New York Public Library;
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile;
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia;
Blanton Museum, Austin, TX;
Museo del Barrio, New York;
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC;
The Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York;
Museo Tamayo, México D.F.;
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain;
Daros Collection Zurich, Switzerland;
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires;
Brooklyn Museum, NY, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

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