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Terry Allen
Grace1985

Not on view
Mixed-media installation with a gray painted panel, framed night-sky painting, Asian script, a white plaster chair form on a map-topped platform, and a human skull underneath
Mixed-media assemblage with a dark patinated box base containing a small white painted bench and a miniature skull figure beneath a glass surface. A vertical dark panel at back holds a gold-framed video monitor displaying a night sky with crescent moon and blue text; a small gold cross is mounted to the panel's right side.
Mixed-media wall installation on a dark gray panel featuring a gold-framed painting of a crescent moon against a deep blue night sky, surrounded by layered elements: blue Chinese characters over black brushstrokes at left, a small wooden cross at right, blue English text reading "FOR ONE MOMENT / THE ANGER IS GONE" below the frame, and a white sculptural block in the foreground.
Mixed-media installation: a flat wooden case displaying a vintage map of Southeast Asia, with a rough-textured white plaster chair and a small wooden ladder placed directly on the map's surface.
Mixed-media installation with a white plaster chair on a reflective glass platform, a small painted skull beneath it, set against a dark painted backdrop featuring a framed image of a crescent moon, a small cross, Chinese characters in blue brushwork, blue text reading "FOR ONE MOMENT THE ANGER IS GONE," and the word "YOUTH" along the lower edge.
Mixed-media installation: a white-painted rectangular chair or bench structure with thick, textured surfaces sits above a floor covered with a map printed on reflective material. Beneath the seat, a small white skull with painted cross and dot eyes rests on a wooden grid grate. A dark panel with faint red text is visible in the upper background.
Mixed-media installation detail: a small white painted ceramic or plaster skull with blue eye sockets and a cross mark on its forehead, resting on a bamboo raft atop a resin-coated surface embedded with a map, beneath a white platform edge.
Mixed-media assemblage on a dark, heavily textured surface; riveted metal straps interlace with coarse animal hair or fiber at left, with scratched markings across the background; the word "YOUTH" appears in small yellow-green letters at right.
Artist or Maker
Terry Allen
United States, Kansas, Wichita, born 1943, active Santa Fe, New Mexico
Title
Grace
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1985
Medium
Mixed media
Dimensions
a) Back wall: 48 1/4 × 42 × 4 in. (122.56 × 106.68 × 10.16 cm) b) Framed landscape: 22 5/8 × 29 5/8 × 1 1/2 in. (57.47 × 75.25 × 3.81 cm) c) Base: 7 3/4 × 42 × 35 in. (19.69 × 106.68 × 88.9 cm) d) Skull: 3 × 3 × 2 3/4 in. (7.62 × 7.62 × 6.99 cm) e) White platform: 18 × 10 1/8 × 21 1/4 in. (45.72 × 25.72 × 53.98 cm) Installation: 48 × 42 × 39 in. (121.92 × 106.68 × 99.06 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Sheila and Wally Weisman through the 1986 Collectors Committee
Accession Number
M.2014.249a-e
Classification
Installation Art
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art