Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Preview image of work. Twig with thorns with pigment and varnish, Untitled 13536

2003.26.5

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Artist

Dove Bradshaw (New York City, b. 1949 - )

Title

Untitled

Creation Date

1997

Century

20th century

Dimensions

6 in. x 8 in. x 8 1/2 in. (15.24 cm x 20.32 cm x 21.59 cm)

Classification

Sculpture

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

Twig with thorns with pigment and varnish

Credit Line

Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky

Copyright

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Accession Number

2003.26.5

Wrought from a single twig of the honey locust tree and partially painted, this delicate wreath reaches out into space like an antenna, as if detecting a reality beyond the grasp of human sensory perception. New York artist Dove Bradshaw created this object as part of her Thorn Works. Influenced by Marcel Duchamp and in conversation with avant-garde composer John Cage, Bradshaw conceived of them as a contribution to a new art form, Indeterminacy. It is based on the acknowledgment of ontological vagaries, such as the changeability of an art object depending on its environment.