Description:
Three abstracted wing shapes forming a circle.

Label Text:
Label text from “The Art of Collecting: Contemporary Prints from the Risa Gerrig Collection,” September 10 – October 12, 2014:
Simmons is interested in the aesthetic properties of the chalkboard, and the aesthetic of erasure plays an important role in his works. His print Tri-Wing Span represents the repeated image of a black wing arranged in a ring, blocking faint words in the background. The wing forms are smudged, partially erasing some of the feather details. The wing imagery itself carries multiple suggestions of meanings: as symbol of freedom, passage, or religion. The act of erasure highlights the idea of impermanence and combined with blocking the words in the background plays a central role as a gesture of critique. - Shelby Miner (B.A. ’15)

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