Alyson Shotz
False Branches #62001

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Artist or Maker: Alyson Shotz
Title: False Branches #6
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 2001
Medium: Inkjet print (dye based)
Dimensions: Frame: 55 1/2 × 47 1/2 × 2 in. (140.97 × 120.65 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number: M.2003.56
Classification: Photographs
Collecting Area: Photography
Curatorial Notes: Alyson Shotz briefly studied geology, focusing on the role and effects of water on the Earth—an interest in the organic world that continues to influence her art practice. Initially a painter, by the late 1990s Shotz had begun to integrate sculpture and, to do so, turned to photography as a tool to envision large-scale work. Experimenting with early computer programs, she created photographs of an imaginary, fecund world. Modeling and manipulating her materials in the digital realm in much the same way she approaches sculpture, Shotz blends digital representations of both natural and human-made elements such as flowers, vines, plastic, and glass to present another kind of supernatural.

Eve Schillo

2024

Not on view

No image

Artist or Maker: Alyson Shotz
Title: False Branches #6
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 2001
Medium: Inkjet print (dye based)
Dimensions: Frame: 55 1/2 × 47 1/2 × 2 in. (140.97 × 120.65 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number: M.2003.56
Classification: Photographs
Collecting Area: Photography
Curatorial Notes: Alyson Shotz briefly studied geology, focusing on the role and effects of water on the Earth—an interest in the organic world that continues to influence her art practice. Initially a painter, by the late 1990s Shotz had begun to integrate sculpture and, to do so, turned to photography as a tool to envision large-scale work. Experimenting with early computer programs, she created photographs of an imaginary, fecund world. Modeling and manipulating her materials in the digital realm in much the same way she approaches sculpture, Shotz blends digital representations of both natural and human-made elements such as flowers, vines, plastic, and glass to present another kind of supernatural.

Eve Schillo

2024