Untitled
1971
Virginia Jaramillo
American, born 1939
Contemporary Art
Virginia Jaramillo’s minimal, curvilinear works reduce the painted image to its most essential elements: surface, color, and line. The pure field of pigment, which the artist describes as “a space filled with life and possibilities,” is enlivened by three precise brushstrokes that wind, divide, and intersect.
The same year Jaramillo painted this work, she was the sole Latinx painter included in The DeLuxe Show, one of the first racially integrated exhibitions of abstract art in the United States. She was also involved with the feminist journal Heresies and formed part of the editorial collective for a 1979 issue titled “Third World Women: The Politics of Being Other.”
The same year Jaramillo painted this work, she was the sole Latinx painter included in The DeLuxe Show, one of the first racially integrated exhibitions of abstract art in the United States. She was also involved with the feminist journal Heresies and formed part of the editorial collective for a 1979 issue titled “Third World Women: The Politics of Being Other.”
- Maker/Artist
- Jaramillo, Virginia
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 84 1/8 × 72 1/8 in. (213.7 × 183.2 cm)
- Departments
- Contemporary Art
- Accession Number
- 2017.12
- Credit Line
- Purchased with funds given by Frieze Brooklyn Museum Fund Supported by WME | IMG and LIFEWTR, gift of the Contemporary Art Committee, and William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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