Hap Tivey

Study for "AO GATE" #1

Maker

Hap Tivey (American, b.1946)

Title

Study for "AO GATE" #1

Year

1978

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

aluminum, wood

Supports

Dimensions

45.7 x 30.8 x 8.3 cm (18 x 12 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

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

Credit / Object Number

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

Type

Exhibition History

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Fifty Works for Rhode Island
Jul 20, 2012 – Dec 02, 2012

Label copy

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.

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Tombstone

Hap Tivey (American, b.1946)
Study for "AO GATE" #1, 1978
Wood, canvas, aluminum screen, and Polacoat
45.7 x 30.8 x 8.3 cm (18 x 12 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches)
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 2009.59.36

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