Still Life IV
Elsa Rady
Contemporary Art
Elsa Rady’s porcelain vessels merge Asian ceramic tradition with the simplicity of modern European and American design. In the course of her career, Rady began to focus on the sculptural aspects of her work rather than the utilitarian features usually associated with the vessel form. In 1990 she began to assemble her pieces in groups of various sizes. The works of her Still Life series are tableaux in which the individual pieces relate to each other very much as objects in traditional still-life paintings do. In Still Life IV two distinctly different vessels are paired on an aluminum shelf that is attached to a rectangular backdrop, which suggests the clearly defined pictorial plane of a painting.
MEDIUM
Porcelain, white aluminium backing
DATES
1994
DIMENSIONS
34 x 27 1/2 x 13 in. (86.4 x 69.9 x 33 cm)
ACCESSION NUMBER
2004.92a-d
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Elizabeth A. Sackler
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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