Artist
Laurel Farrin
Title
Polka
Date2000
MediumOil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions76 × 65 in. (193 × 165.1 cm)
Framed Size: 77 1/2 × 66 1/2 in. (196.9 × 168.9 cm)
Framed Size: 77 1/2 × 66 1/2 in. (196.9 × 168.9 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Wilson Building Collection
Object numberDCCAH2006.141
ClassificationsPaintings
Locations
Wilson Building Art Collection (1350 Pennsylvania Ave NW)
DescriptionIn the painting, Polka (Blob’s Park), Farrin works with images and fields of massive weight and ethereal lightness as though gravity and weightlessness could exist in an impossible relationship of faith. The painting’s physical presence is structured in a weaving process. The warp and woof of paint elicits forms and relationships that ravel and unravel. Form itself is a process never fixed. Within the envelope of a layered, blushing ground, Farrin hopes to speak of the unpredictable turns and ambiguities of living.
