Body Supreme

Art

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Body Supreme

Entry/Object ID

2019.72

Description

Black box with acrylic window that houses a neon translucent puzzle of abstract shapes.

Artwork Details

Medium

Acrylic puzzle

Context

Roland Miller is an artist and photographer who lives and works in Chicago.He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, received his BA in Painting and Sculpture from Boston University, and studied Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is currently a teaching assistant. He is Co-director of Julius Caesar gallery in Chicago, an artist-run alternative gallery space. He explores images as materials, with a variety of outputs. "Body Supreme" is a puzzle cut out from an acrylic board, with the individual insert pieces cut out from acrylic of different colors. It is one of an "edition" of nine similar pieces published by Fernwey, each one with different colors.

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

Roland Miller

Date made

2018

Ethnography

Notes

American

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

Abstract (modern European style), European, geometric abstraction, abstraction, forms of expression (artistic concept), artistic concepts

Hierarchy Name

Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)

Facet

Styles and Periods Facet, Associated Concepts Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Puzzles, Abstract works

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Framed

Height

13-1/4 in

Width

13-3/16 in

Depth

1-1/4 in

Dimension Notes

33.65 cm. x 41.11 cm. x 3.17 cm.

Dimension Description

Unframed

Height

8-1/2 in

Width

11 in