Rhythm, Rhythm, Rhythm

Art

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Rhythm, Rhythm, Rhythm

Entry/Object ID

2016.01

Description

Green and reddish pink thread embroidered to spell out the title.

Artwork Details

Medium

Embroidery mixed media

Context

Dianna Frid’s work explores the relationships between text and weaving. The words text and textile share an etymological root, the Latin word texere, which means ‘to weave’. Although not literally a weaving, Rhythm Rhythm Rhythm considers writing a process that collapses boundaries between the tactile and auditory. The artist posits that the piece is materially and technically heterodox, integrating a variety of media including drawing, painting, embroidery, text, and textile. Among Rhythm Rhythm Rhythm’s many other formal considerations, the piece disorients the viewer with the use of the muted green and vibrant pink that tremble unharmoniously beside one another. Diagonal black lines camouflage the green and obscure letters, making the word itself even harder to discern. Frid’s inquisitions of text shatter the representational model associated with text-based art, breaking down conventions of language such as grammar and syntax to yield to a rigorous formal aesthetic. Challenging the notion that words can be understood with only the aid of a dictionary, amorphous meanings evoke the viewer’s curiosity. Frid’s investigations of materiality and process in textiles, installations, sculptures, and drawings alike are equally rooted in semiotics.

Acquisition

Accession

2016.01

Source or Donor

Frid, Dianna

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, Courtesy of the artist

Made/Created

Artist

Frid, Dianna

Date made

2014

Ethnography

Notes

North America Canada

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

Latin American, Americas, The, typefaces (type forms), information form components, components (objects parts), rhythm (artistic concept), formal concepts (artistic concept), artistic concepts

Hierarchy Name

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

Facet

Styles and Periods Facet, Objects Facet, Associated Concepts Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall

Width

14 in

Length

22 in

Exhibition

Dianna Frid and Richard Rezac: Split Complimentary