Swipe Right

Painting

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Swipe Right

Entry/Object ID

2017.39

Description

Teal and red abstraction of figures head and arm bent upward.

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum; Art Aquisition Endowment and Restricted gift of Scott Hunter

Made/Created

Artist

Nelson, Avery Z.

Date made

2017

Ethnography

Notes

North America US

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

leisure, culture-related concepts, cyberspace, computer science concepts, scientific concepts, social structure, sociological concepts, social science concepts

Hierarchy Name

Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall

Width

44 in

Length

48 in

Exhibition

DPAM Collects: Happy Little Trees and Other Recent Acquisitions

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Zoe Nelson (American, b. 1983) Swipe Right, 2017 Oil on canvas Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment Fund and restricted gift of Scott J. Hunter 2017.39 Swipe Right is at once a personal reflection of contemporary romance and the navigation of relationships in today’s internet-based society. Originally developed by the popular dating app, Tinder, swipe right refers to a single movement of the finger on a phone screen, used to affirm one’s attraction to a potential date, partner, or fling. Here, an omnipotent thumb hovers over the shapes and forms of a female body. The thumb’s placement between the legs and oversized proportions give rise to the notions of female desire, which drive the title’s command to swipe right. Intersecting the composition is the bright glow of the handheld device, through which these dating, desire, and online personal connection determinations are made.