Suspended Chair
started 1983, published 1985
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View on museum website →Medium
drypoint on Fabriano Rosaspina wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 83.3 x 60.7 cm (32 13/16 x 23 7/8 in.) sheet: 100 x 71.2 cm (39 3/8 x 28 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
1988.74.102
Art Historical Context
**Suspended Chair**, a striking drypoint print by renowned conceptual artist Bruce Nauman, begun in 1983 and published 1985. Measuring an impressive plate size of 83.3 x 60.7 cm on Fabriano Rosaspinaove paper, this work Nauman's exploration of everyday objects transformed into sources of unease and ambiguity. Housed in the National Gallery of Art as a gift from Gemini G.E.L. and the, it invites viewers to ponder the tension between familiarity and the uncanny—a hallmark of Nauman's oeuvre from the 1970s onward. Drypoint, Nauman's chosen technique here, involves scratching directly into a meta...
About the Artist
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman, born on December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, grew up in a family frequently uprooted by his father's career as a General Electric engineer. After studying mathematics, physics, and art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a BS in 1964, Nauman pursued an MFA at the University of California, Davis in 1966. There, he studied under William T. Wiley and Robert Arne...