Blue Hole
Date2007
Artist
Betsy Damon
(American painter, sculptor, and performance artist, born 1940)
Printer/Printmaker
Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions
MediumDigital print with hand coloring
Dimensions12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Danielle Rice in memory of Anne d'Harnoncourt and Sylvia Sleigh, 2010
Object number2010-30.4
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextBetsy Damon’s performance art practice in the 1980s and 1990s generated places for social interaction while her current focus emphasizes the significance of water. She acknowledges the importance of this invaluable resource and creates public projects—sculptures and parks—that filter polluted water and reconstruct wetlands. Blue Hole illustrates the location of a spring in Texas visited by American Indians until the 1950s.