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2013-14
digital print, flashe paint

Digital photographs of contingent objects “selected” with white paint.

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from L’Encyclopédie: Miroitier Photoworks
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Collection City of New York  1997 Epson digital prints on paper, each 20"x15" Each object from the inventory in the Encyclopedia engravings is isolated as a solitary vignette by layering a nearly ...
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High Mesa
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Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University  1986 fir, stone, concrete 18' x 23' x 23' A platform constructed within the gallery architecture, High Mesa is an archetypal artist's dwelling. A small boulder and cast ...
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from L’Encyclopédie: Miroitier Photoworks
High Mesa
The Library Project: Planet
W.P.A. Project
Double Vision: Propositions
Double Vision: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Praying Project
Bellagio Rockefeller Drawings
Dailies
Separate Ground

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November 21, 2014 by jschiff@wesleyan.edu

2013-14
digital print, flashe paint

Digital photographs of contingent objects “selected” with white paint.

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