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Margaret Bourke-White's Smokestacks, Otis Steel Company (in 20 Days of Smog)
Margaret Bourke-White's Smokestacks, Otis Steel Company (in 20 Days of Smog)

Margaret Bourke-White's Smokestacks, Otis Steel Company (in 20 Days of Smog)

Artist/Maker (American, b. 1952)
Date1994
MediumParticulate matter (smog) on plexiglas
DimensionsOverall: 17 1/4 × 13 3/8 in. (43.8 × 34 cm)
Credit LineRuth C. Roush Contemporary Art Fund
Object number1994.1.1
Status
On view
Copyright© Kim AbelesMore Information
Abeles' ghostly images are formed by exposing partially masked plexiglass plates to the atmospheric pollution of downtown Los Angeles for a specified length of time. This stencil re-creates Margaret Bourke-White's Smokestacks, Otis Steel Company (AMAM 1991.21). Bourke-White worked as a commercial photographer in Cleveland from 1927-30; her powerful images of the Otis Steel Mill in Cleveland's Flats launched her career as a photojournalist.
Exhibition History
Kim Abeles: American Air
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 12, 1994 - May 1, 1994 )
Changing Visions of the North American Landscape
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 24, 2000 - January 28, 2001 )
Artists on Artists
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 7, 2012 - July 29, 2012 )
Time Well Spent: Art and Temporality
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 26, 2016 - December 23, 2016 )
Femme 'n isms, Part II: Flashpoints in Photography
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 2, 2024 - January 18, 2025 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
  • On View
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