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Erleichda

Artist/Maker (American, b. 1965)
Date2015
MediumAcrylic on paper mounted on panel
DimensionsOverall: 24 1/4 × 19 1/8 × 1 11/16 in. (61.6 × 48.6 × 4.3 cm)
Credit LineJohn Pearson Fund for Abstract Art
Object number2015.23
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Mark KefferMore Information
Keffer’s semi-abstract diagrammatic paintings evoke circuit boards and technological devices. He writes, “There are often references to circuitry, which are used primarily to symbolize information to which we have no access. I see ultimate truths as unknowable and hope to mirror our state of not knowing. On a poetic level, I hope my work evokes remnants of a future digital past.” The title Erleichda refers to a fictional language used to communicate between different dimensions in the 1984 Tom Robbins novel, Jitterbug Perfume.
Provenance(1point618 Gallery, Cleveland, OH); purchased 2015 by Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OHExhibition History
Everything is Stardust: Artmaking and the Knowability of the Universe
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 1, 2023 - December 23, 2023 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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