Untitled

Photograph

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Calvin University Center Art Gallery

The image depicts a barren landscape featuring a large, partially destroyed, metallic structure with jagged edges, standing prominently on a cracked, dried surface under a clear blue sky. In the background, a long line of evenly spaced wooden posts stretches across the vast, arid expanse towards a distant mountain range.

The image depicts a barren landscape featuring a large, partially destroyed, metallic structure with jagged edges, standing prominently on a cracked, dried surface under a clear blue sky. In the background, a long line of evenly spaced wooden posts stretches across the vast, arid expanse towards a distant mountain range.

Name/Title

Untitled

Entry/Object ID

1999.3.1.3

Description

Metal windmill-like form in white dirt field with fence and blueish mountains in the background.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Ilfocolor print

Category

Calvin Faculty Artist, Alumni Artist, Vault, Landscape, Plants and Nature, Objects

Made/Created

Artist

Jennifer Steensma Hoag

Date made

1998

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image size

Height

15-1/4 in

Width

15-1/4 in

Exhibitions

Art Faculty Exhibition - The Work of Our Hands, CAG, Feb. 20-March 17, 1999
Contemporary Landscapes - Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Sept.-Dec., 2004

General Notes

Note

Expanded Wall Label: Jennifer Steensma Hoag has been photographing land sites since 1993. Her images focus on locations that are under construction, or in the process of being altered. Hoag omits contextual information in her images, however, leading viewers to believe they are viewing documents of land art or permanent installations. The result is an ambiguous landscape, without any clear context, that demonstrates a photograph's ability to both inform and deceive.