Artist
Beverly Ress
Title
Cosmos
Date2014
MediumColored pencil on paper, laser-cut
DimensionsPaper Size: 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2017.039
ClassificationsDrawings
Locations
Currently Not on View
DescriptionDrawing, using colored pencils on Arches paper, of what Ress found in a jar in the Mammalian Brain Lab, while she was an artist-in-residence at George Washington University. As she drew them, the brain parts began to look to her like landscape elements; there was a blue machine that she could see through the jar, so she included that bit of color, thinking of the sky. Once the drawing was finished, Ress downloaded a photo of deep space from the NASA website, made it into a vector file, and had it laser-cut across the entire surface of the paper.
