Noise/Silence
Noise/Silence
Noise/Silence
ArtistRichard L. Dana

Noise/Silence

Date2004
MediumMixed media with fabric mounted on board
Dimensions14 × 22 in. (35.6 × 55.9 cm) Framed Size: 16 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (41.9 × 62.2 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Wilson Building Collection
Object numberDCCAH2006.131
ClassificationsPaintings
Locations
  • Wilson Building Art Collection (1350 Pennsylvania Ave NW)
Description"Noise/Silence" is from a series of work Richard Dana exhibited at Instituto Camoes in Brasilia, Brazil in 2001. The exhibition was entitled Duality and consisted of twenty two works of art. As with Noise/Silence, all the work had two images side by side which related to each other visually, had bold coloration and suggested a duality. In regard to Noise/Silence, the image on the left, Noise, contains a form suggestive of a wind instrument such as a saxophone. The multicolored form is, one might say, vibratingly loud. Silence, the image on the right, is the Noise form flipped upside-down and painted in a much narrower range of hues and colors and is relatively more muted than the Noise form. In this painting the stippled dots were made with ceramic paint; everything else was the product of acrylic paint and a brush.
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