Artist Considers the 21st Century Implications of Psychosis as Public Health Crisis or, Critical/Comedic Analysis into the Pathophysiology of Psychosis
Artist Considers the 21st Century Implications of Psychosis as Public Health Crisis or, Critical/Comedic Analysis into the Pathophysiology of Psychosis
Artist
Vanessa L. German
(born 1976)
Date2014
MediumMixed media assemblage
Dimensions40 × 55 × 26 in. (101.6 × 139.7 × 66 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.92
Accession number
2020.92
On View
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Label TextBeneath a bed full of porcelain figurines, Vanessa German’s winged figure balances with one foot on a skateboard and the US flag in hand. German refers to her sculptures as power figures. She explains that when creating these figures, “I experienced a power that I could not language inside of that process.” By tapping into an ancestral impulse for making, German creates something new.
Bajo una cama llena de figuritas de porcelana, la figura alada de Vanessa German hace equilibrios con un pie sobre una patineta y sosteniendo la bandera estadounidense con una mano. German se refiere a sus esculturas como figuras de poder, y explica que al crearlas, “experimenté un poder que no podía expresar dentro de ese proceso”. Al aprovechar un impulso ancestral para crear, German elabora algo nuevo.
