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Artist Considers the 21st Century Implications of Psychosis as Public Health Crisis or, Critical/Comedic Analysis into the Pathophysiology of Psychosis
Beneath a bed full of porcelain figurines, Vanessa German’s winged figure balances with one foot on a skateboard and the US flag in hand. German refers to her sculptures as power figures. She explains that when creating these figures, “I experienced a power that I could not language inside of that process.” By tapping into an ancestral impulse for making, German creates something new.
ArtistVanessa L. German
Date2014
MediumMixed media assemblage
Dimensions40 x 55 x 26 in. (101.6 x 139.7 x 66 cm)
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.92
ClassificationSculpture
Provenance(Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY); purchased by GAE LLC, Bentonville, AR, 2015 (in conjunction with the 2014 Crystal Bridges exhibition State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now); transferred to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR 2020
On ViewNo
This artwork's face covers about 302× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.
