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Hap Tivey

Study for "AO GATE" #1, 1978

Description

Maker

  • Hap Tivey, American

Title

Study for "AO GATE" #1

Year

1978

Medium

Wood, canvas, aluminum screen, and Polacoat

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • aluminum,
  • wood

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

45.7 x 30.8 x 8.3 cm (18 x 12 1/8 x 3 5/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed verso on canvas in pencil: "Study for 'AO GATE' #1 HAP '78"

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services

Object Number

2009.59.36

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

July 20 - December 2, 2012

Affiliated with Southern California’s “Light and Space” movement, Hap Tivey created light sculptures and installations in the late 1960s while living and working in Los Angeles along with James Turrell, Robert Irwin, and Douglas Wheeler. After moving to New York in the 1970s, he continued to explore the perceptual qualities of light in his “rear-projection boxes” comprised of paintings behind sheets of reflective mesh and translucent polymer. Challenging the luminescent characteristics of traditional painting, Study for “AO Gate” #1 is one of these paintings-within-a painting, containing a stretched canvas embedded in a frame behind a sheet of industry-grade Polacoat, a material used for rear projection light and movie screens. Dependent on the viewer’s position and the angle of light in the room, abstract shapes on the canvas appear like floating shadows barely visible behind the murky green screen.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Study for "AO GATE" #1 with the accession number of 2009.59.36. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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