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ArtGrams: Allusion of Gravity

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Instagrammer @thepaulrudolph captioned this close-up of Alyson Shotz’s Allusion of Gravity with a Herman Melville quote: “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

Alyson Shotz’s Allusion of Gravity, on view in Intersections@5, has been captivating audiences and taking over our Instagram feed. For this month’s ArtGrams, we’re highlighting a few of the most creative shots of this mesmerizing piece.

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Photo by Instagrammer @a_colbs

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Instagrammer @wolfofkstreet snapped this photo during a Phillips after 5.

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Photo: Instagrammer @abby8ken

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Instagrammer @uglyguckling_: “ALL the feels today.”

 

Artists Know How to Keep Things in Perspective

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Paolo Uccello (1396-1475). Perspective Study of a Chalice, pen and ink on paper

Paolo Uccello (1396-1475). Perspective Study of a Chalice, pen and ink on paper, 29 x 24.5 cm, Gabinetto dei Disegni, Uffizi, Florence, Italy.

“[Paolo Uccello] would remain the long night in his study to work out the vanishing points of his perspective, and when summoned to his bed by his wife replied in the celebrated words: ‘How fair a thing is this perspective.’ Being endowed be nature with a sophisticated and subtle disposition, he took pleasure in nothing save in investigating difficult and impossible questions of perspective . . . When engaged in these matters, Paolo would remain alone in his house almost like a hermit, with hardly any intercourse, for weeks and months, not allowing himself to be seen . . . By using up his time on these fancies he remained more poor than famous during his lifetime.”

Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists

 

 

Alyson Shotz, Ecliptic, 2012.

Alyson Shotz, Ecliptic, 2012. Photo: Lee Stalsworth.

Alyson Shotz’s work Ecliptic, on view through May 27 as part of the Intersections contemporary art series, makes me think of a 560-year-old Italian Renaissance perspectival drawing. Except Uccello never worked in yarn. The modern is always rooted in the past. Be sure to see this installation–you may leave saying to yourself, “How fair a thing is this perspective.” May she become more famous than poor.

Ianthe Gergel, Museum Assistant