LOT DETAILS

Materials:

digital prints on canvas

Size Notes:

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Description:

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Exhibited:

~Los Angeles, California, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, June 11-September 10, 2006. ~As part of this exhibition this lot traveled to Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago; The Rubin Museum of Art, New York; The Visual Arts Gallery at Emory University, Atlanta; The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Hillside Terrace Galleries, Tokyo; Fundacíon Canal de Isabel II, Madrid; The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum at Florida International University, Miami; The Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania; The Nobel Museum, Stockholm; The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; The Santa Clara University Learning Center, Santa Clara, California~

Literature:

~The Missing Peace: Artists & the Dalai Lama. San Rafael, California: Earth Aware, 2006, p. 126-127, illus.~~This lot is based on Alavi's site specific installation in Emeryville, California which consists of a series of surreal variations on the familiar traffic sign figure. These figures painted on utility boxes and scattered throughout Emeryville ask the viewer to consider questions about identity, place and purpose. The present work consists of sixteen panels that can be arranged in a variety of configurations.