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© Nick Cave. Photo by James Prinz Photography. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
End Upheld
201494 x 30 x 25 in. (238.8 x 76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Nick Cave
United States
Object Type:
Sculpture
Medium and Support:
Mixed media including carved stool, light fixtures, ceramic birds, metal flowers
Credit Line:
Bequest of Charles W. Strowger, by exchange, and Thelma M. Knapp Fund
Accession Number:
2014.63
Location: Currently on view
Nick Cave is an African American sculptor, costume maker, and performance artist. He uses objects he finds at thrift stores, flea markets, garage sales, and the like to create elaborate and decorative works of art that are sometimes beautiful and sometimes troubling. End Upheld has both of these qualities.
The sculpture includes a racist image of a male figure of African descent. The object may have once served as a pedestal or a stool. Now it is elevated, sitting atop a stool of its own. Raised to new heights, the figure supports a striking and complex latticework of birds, beads, flowers, stylized lamps, and other ornaments.
The title of the sculpture, End Upheld, is a play on words. Just as the figure may have once been a stool for someone to sit on, in this new context it is supporting a world of beauty and light. Through the process of making art, Cave has transformed an object representing a painful, oppressive past into a source of hope and transcendence.
[Gallery label text, summer 2015]
The sculpture includes a racist image of a male figure of African descent. The object may have once served as a pedestal or a stool. Now it is elevated, sitting atop a stool of its own. Raised to new heights, the figure supports a striking and complex latticework of birds, beads, flowers, stylized lamps, and other ornaments.
The title of the sculpture, End Upheld, is a play on words. Just as the figure may have once been a stool for someone to sit on, in this new context it is supporting a world of beauty and light. Through the process of making art, Cave has transformed an object representing a painful, oppressive past into a source of hope and transcendence.
[Gallery label text, summer 2015]
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Made by Whites for Whites 9/4/2014 - 10/11/2014
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Article Author: Rafferty, Rebecca. Article Title: In with the New: New Acquisitions and Reimagined Spaces at MAG. Article Scope: Review. City Newspaper. Rochester, NY Issue Date: August 26, 2015.
- Article Author: Smith, Trevor. Article Title: Black memorabilia (on transformation). Article Scope: Article. White Paper. New York, NY: Jack Shainman Gallery, 2014.
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