Name/Title

Mango

Entry/Object ID

2019.31

Description

Yellow panted canvas with woven triangle area in the bottom left corner.

Artwork Details

Medium

Acrylic on hand-woven textile

Context

Mango, 2014, is an example of her painting on top of textiles. She weaves textiles from a loom, applies them over stretcher bars and proceeds to work into the surface with paint, retracing the pattern of the textile, and completely omitting some aspect of the pattern. There is both an additive and reductive part of this process. Bittman's color palette appears as though it was formulated to match or compliment the textile, allowing the viewer to appreciate a sense of design as well as a historical note to viewing the object from which to paint can also be applied to the object itself and thus recreated as its own work of art.

Acquisition

Accession

2019.26-64, 72-78

Source or Donor

Browne Goodwin

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Browne and Diane Goodwin

Made/Created

Artist

Samantha Bittman

Date made

2014

Ethnography

Notes

American

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature

Transcription

Samantha Bittman

Type

Date

Transcription

2014

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

weaving, assembling (additive and joining process)

Hierarchy Name

Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)

Facet

Activities Facet

Dimensions

Height

18 in

Width

15 in

Depth

1-7/8 in

Dimension Notes

40.95 cm. x 35.56 cm. x 4.76 cm.