The Trap

Painting

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Humber Galleries

Name/Title

The Trap

Entry/Object ID

HUM-2013-00008

Description

This work is more muted in tone than the other two Authier works in the collection, incorporating crystalline shapes into its composition. Like the titular “trap”, the viewer is lured by the light values in the upper region of the painting down into the sharper angles and darker values of the bottom right corner, creating an effect that evokes a black hole or a vortex. The use of brighter silver shades and angular forms juxtaposed with the flashes of red also evokes an actual steel trap and its effects on its victims.

Artwork Details

Medium

Acrylic on Canvas

Collection

Permanent Collection

Category

Painting

Made/Created

Artist

Melanie Authier

Date made

2012

Dimensions

Height

36 in

Width

48 in