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Details
- Date
- 2015
- Media categories
- Ceramic , Sculpture
- Materials used
- glazed earthenware, epoxy resin, lacquer, acrylic paint, canvas
- Dimensions
- 229.9 x 218.4 x 35.6 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. canvas, pencil "Betty Woodman 2015".
- Credit
- Mollie Douglas Bequest Fund 2018
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 274.2018.a-d
- Copyright
- © Woodman Family Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Betty Woodman
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About
The art of Betty Woodman inhabits a world of everyday pleasures. Associated with the pattern and decoration movement of the mid 1970s, Woodman long argued for the place of ceramics in contemporary art and is highly regarded by a younger generation of artists working in the medium today. She has been the subject of major survey exhibitions at institutions as unlike each other as The Metropolitan in New York (2006) and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London (2016).
Woodman’s hybrid ceramic-paintings engage with the modern tradition of the domestic interior as a conditional paradise and as a frame for experiments in colour. In 'The yellow room' forms migrate freely between ‘craft’ (represented by the ceramic vessel) and 'art' (represented by the painting), with no precedence or higher value granted to either. The jaunty silhouette of the ceramic sculpture, seen in front of the canvas, is echoed within the two-dimensional world of the painting. White-washed and ghostly, it sits on a window sill, next to which the solid ceramic ‘brushstrokes’ of an open shutter further confuse painted space and sculpted form.
As well as being characterised by a pale-yellow radiance,'The yellow room' is marked by a sense of ease and lightness in its painted surface: the traces of Woodman, during an extraordinary late-in-life creative streak, working lyrically and freely in front of it.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Art Basel Hong Kong 2018, Exhibition Venue Unknown, 21 Jan 2018–26 Feb 2018
Breakfast at the seashore, lunch in Antella, SALON 94, New York, 21 Jan 2018–26 Feb 2018
Matisse Alive, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Oct 2021–03 Apr 2022