Image

Su-en Wong

Shy Green

Description

Maker

Su-en Wong (American, b. Singapore, b. 1943)
Exit Art (American, 1982 - 2012), publisher

Title

Shy Green
from the portfolio "In the Year Three"

Year

2003

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

Image/sheet: 76 x 56 cm (29 15/16 x 22 1/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso LL: inscribed in graphite: 48/50
Verso LR: inscribed in graphite: Su-en Wong 2003

Identification

Edition

48/50

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Exit Art

Object Number

2012.133.8.7

Type

Projects & Publications

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 15: Green

RISD Museum’s Manual 15 Celebrates Green

New life is always shown to us through mokingpu, the color green-the light green stems of rabbitbrush, one of the few colors seen the winter; the tender green shoots of new corn that emerge in the spring against the backdrop of the dry brown earth. Green offers hope. Green represents life.

-Susan Sekaquaptewa

A welcome splash of color after a long winter, the RISD Museum’s fifteenth issue of Manual is awash in shades of green, celebrating the color's myriad associations with nature and growth, environmentalism and sustainable practices, newness and hope (as well as poison and currency) and delving into the histories of specific pigments and processes. Manual 15 opens with an introductory essay by Hopi grower Susan Sekaquaptewa, who details the soft hues of the flora of Northern Arizona. “You appreciate plants more when you develop a relationship with them,” she explains.

This issue of Manual is supported in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional generous support is provided by the RISD Museum Associates and Sotheby’s.

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Su-en Wong (American, b. Singapore, b. 1943)
Exit Art (American, 1982 - 2012), publisher
Shy Green; from the portfolio "In the Year Three", 2003
Inkjet and screenprint spot varnish on Hahnemuhle German etching paper
Image/sheet: 76 x 56 cm (29 15/16 x 22 1/16 inches)
Gift of Exit Art 2012.133.8.7

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