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Maker(s):Pfaff, Judy
Culture:American (1946- )
Title:Hand in Hand
Date Made:1996
Type:Print
Materials:color intaglio and lithograph
Measurements:image: 10 x 27 1/4 in.; 25.4 x 69.2 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1997.7
Credit Line:Purchase with Acquisition Fund
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
The sculptor Judy Pfaff has been creating abstract environments of sinuously-flowing sculpture for years. Seemingly alive, her assemblages explode and tumble, defying gravity and space in amorphous rhythms of brilliantly colored steel. "Life isn't soothing - it's disquieting, so I want to shake people up with many images." Pfaff's three-dimensional installations challenge both sculptural and architectural concepts - dispelling traditional notions of mass, scale, and perspective - as they stop time.

Pfaff's Hand in Hand is more introspective in nature, referring to Eastern mysticism. Produced in 1996, it blends calligraphic scrawls, petroglyphs, and tantric-like handprints to encourage contemplation and spirituality.

Tags:
abstract; hands; mysticism; text

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