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Utopia 2
Utopia 2
Utopia 2

Utopia 2

Artist (American, born 1974)
Date2013
Mediumalbumen print, toned
DimensionsImage: 6 × 8 in. (15.2 × 20.3 cm)
Support: 7 1/4 × 9 5/8 in. (18.4 × 24.4 cm)
Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from Allan Swartzberg, 2013
Object number2013.43
DescriptionCentral image of tree in landscape with repeated appearance of component branches.
Text Entries
The artist lists the medium for this print as “Hand-coated albumen print, selenium toned.” The photograph was made in New Mexico.
Using the simple image of a tree, the artist creates a delicate, layered composition that appears not entirely of this world. Perhaps responding to current environmental threats to our physical world and the many challenges of contemporary life, Schlesinger constructs a meditation on the concept of Utopia, an idyllic but necessarily imaginary place.
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