ArtistMatthew Mann
Ghost Eviction
Date2016
MediumOil and oil stick on canvas
Dimensions47 × 67 in. (119.4 × 170.2 cm)
Framed Size: 49 × 68 1/2 in. (124.5 × 174 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2016.052
ClassificationsPaintings
Locations
- Committee on Public Works and Operations (1350 Penn Ave NW, 112)
DescriptionThis first in a series of “Ghost Eviction” paintings depicts the spire that Borromini designed for St. Ivo presiding over multicolored grave-like markers. This painting was composed out of an assortment of photo archive images as well as landscape painting tropes. This “Ghost Eviction” painting is a symbolic and humorous approach to notions of eviction and urban redevelopment, and how ghosts aren’t even safe from cycles of poverty and eviction.
