Involvement Series
Wanda Pimentel · 1968 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Wanda Pimentel began her decade-long Involvement Series around 1965. As she put it a few years later, “My studio is in my bedroom. Everything has to be very neat. . . . I work alone. I think my issues are the issues of our time: the lack of perspective for people, their alienation. The saddest thing is for people to be dominated by things.” Throughout the series, Pimentel used a vivid yet limited color palette to depict domestic objects in enigmatic, compressed interiors. In this painting, a pair of feet peek out from below the horizon-like line of a red ironing board. The only other clues to the feet’s owner are the blouses on a rack and the ready iron: the trappings of stereotyped female labor and identity.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Details
- Maker
- Wanda Pimentel, Brazilian, 1943-2019
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- Vinyl on canvas
- Dimensions
- 130 × 98 cm (51 1/4 × 38 5/8 in.)
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- Through prior purchase from the Mary and Leigh Block Fund