Healed by Nature

Work on Paper

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Healed by Nature

Entry/Object ID

2016.10

Description

Swirling shades of blue with a sleeping infant in the center.

Artwork Details

Medium

Mixed media on paper

Context

In Chicago, the artist has said, “a new Roche was born.” It was here in 1979 that Roche Rabell began to hone the extractive technique for which he has become known today. His expressive strokes are scratched into the paint, simultaneously revealing and collapsing realities; a dialectic between the surface and its depths is equalized by the monochromatic blue layers which envelop and buoy the vulnerable infant at the work’s heart.

Acquisition

Accession

2016.10

Source or Donor

Walter Otero

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Gift of a Private Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Roche Rabell, Arnaldo

Date made

2014

Ethnography

Notes

North America Puerto Rico

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Location

BL of R

Transcription

Roche 2014

Notes

Inscription Type: blue ink

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

identity, metaphysical concepts, philosophical concepts, memory (psychological concept), psychological concepts, social science concepts, Puerto Rican, Caribbean, American regions, Americas, The

Hierarchy Name

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

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet, Styles and Periods Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

26 in

Length

32 in