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This piece is from a series in which the artist created custom, asphalt-like canvases made of painted gravel. He then imbedded gold necklace chains pressured into distorted lines into this surface, resulting in dynamic partterns of gold on black that resembles lightning strikes or abstract paintings. This work was first exhibited in the Art Center's 2017 exhibition Alchemy: Transformations in Gold.
NEWS Oct Nov Dec, 2020
DimensionsOverall: 60 1/2 × 49 1/4 in. (153.7 × 125.1 cm)
Accession Number 2020.4
Classificationssculpture
ProvenanceArtist; (Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago). Robert B. Feldman, New York [acquired by 2019]; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2020]
Tan Lejos de Dios; Tan Cercas de los Estados Unidos (So Far from God; So Close to the United States)
Luis Alfonso Jimenez
2001