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DIANA SHPUNGIN
under taken
2011
drawing installation
26.5 x 56 inches
pencil on paper, pencil on wall
archival mounting board, medical tape, erasers
“Under Taken” derives from a family portrait of the artist as a self-conscious pre-teen and her father at Disney World. Shpungin dissects the photograph and draws it in heavily dense graphite silhouette; the artist left crippled with her arms only visible, the father an outline and then a shadow drawn upside down under the drawing directly on the gallery wall. The drawing itself is placed on a shelf made of rubber erasers, a division, --suggesting the impermanence of relationships and existence in general.
drawing installation
26.5 x 56 inches
pencil on paper, pencil on wall
archival mounting board, medical tape, erasers
“Under Taken” derives from a family portrait of the artist as a self-conscious pre-teen and her father at Disney World. Shpungin dissects the photograph and draws it in heavily dense graphite silhouette; the artist left crippled with her arms only visible, the father an outline and then a shadow drawn upside down under the drawing directly on the gallery wall. The drawing itself is placed on a shelf made of rubber erasers, a division, --suggesting the impermanence of relationships and existence in general.