Cardboard Painting
Date1974
Artist
Judy Rifka
(American painter and video artist, born 1945)
MediumAcrylic on cardboard
Dimensions44 3/8 × 42 1/2 in. (112.7 × 108 cm)
frame: 50 7/8 × 49 1/4 in. (129.2 × 125.1 cm)
frame: 50 7/8 × 49 1/4 in. (129.2 × 125.1 cm)
Credit LineTHE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION: FIFTY WORKS FOR FIFTY STATES, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008
Object number2008-49
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextAn example of Judy Rifka's early Minimalist work, this composition was created through layers of red paint on a piece of ordinary packing cardboard. The geometric shape complicates the figure-ground relationship as the form simultaneously floats on and recedes from the support.
