Still Life with Angel's Eyes

Label Text Liliana Porter is an Argentinian artist best known as a printmaker and sculptor. One overarching trend in her wide-ranging practice is an interest in how illusions are created and how pictures convey meaning. In this work, for example, Porter's grid is suggestive of a deconstructed artist's studio strewn with paintbrushes and reference images from Renaissance and modern masters (including Durer's Melancholia and Picasso's The Dream and Lie of Franco, both of which are in the rt Center's collections). Together the print is suggestive of a puzzle ready to be solved, a hidden meaning waiting to be unlocked. Before moving to New York in 1964, Porter studied at Escuela Nacional de Belles Artes in Buenos Aires and then at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. In 1964, she founded the New York Graphic Workshop with artists Luis Camnitzer and Jose Guillermo Castillo. Porter won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980. She's had a number of solo exhibitions including at the Museum of Modern Art in 1973, the Bronx Museum in 1992, and El Museo in 2018. Her work is held in many public collections across the US, Europe, and South America. This is the first work by Porter to enter the Art Center's collections, building on our substantial print collection and helping to expand our holdings of art by women from Latin America. Source: DMAC NEWS,Sep Oct Nov Dec 2023

DimensionsSheet: 35 × 26 3/4 in. (88.9 × 67.9 cm)
Plate: 23 1/2 × 18 in. (59.7 × 45.7 cm)

Accession Number 2023.14

Classificationsprint

SignedLiliana Porter 88 (l,r graphite)

Inscriptions"Still Life with Angel's Eyes" (l,l graphite) 35/35 (l,c graphite) S82-1012 (verso, l,l graphite)

Edition35/35

MarksArches France ∞ (l,r watermark)

Paper/SupportArches

ProvenanceInstitute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2023]