Untitled (from Ponoka portfolio) 01 by Gillian Carnegie
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Accession Code:wu0872
Title:Untitled Date completed: Classification: Medium: Height (mm):295 Width (mm):215 Depth (mm): Inscription: Location Name:Humanities Building Location Description:Psychology Laboratories Location Floor: 0 |
Carnegie has taken this complex interplay between subject and medium to an extreme in her series of black paintings which are referenced here in a print. These night-time woodland scenes refer explicitly to Kasimir Malevich's infamous Black Square painting of 1913. But Carnegie counters the modernist tradition of the monochrome by placing a landscape within it.
This series of accomplished etchings was inspired by Carnegie's visit to Ponoka, a town in Alberta Province, Canada whose name is a transliteration of the native people’s word for Black Elk.