Artist
Beverly Ress
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.
