About this artwork
Jan Groover began her fascination with still-life tableaus as a painter, then switched to photography in the early 1970s. Inspired by the early-20th-century work of Edward Weston and Paul Strand, she began a series of still-life compositions of kitchen items taken with a large-format camera evincing an elegant interplay of shadows and shapes. Groover’s still-life images elevate the mundane over the exotic—here, disposable plastic cups mingle with metal pots and utensils in a dish rack—but each object possesses its own qualities of light, texture, and reflection in balance. At a moment when photography was often equated to capturing a particular moment or action, Groover’s orchestrated tabletop scenes anticipated the work of artists such as Gregory Crewdson, who studied under Groover at the State University of New York at Purchase.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Jan Groover
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Title
- Untitled
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1982
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Dimensions
- Image: 26 × 34.1 cm (10 1/4 × 13 7/16 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 38 cm (14 × 15 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Boardroom, Inc.
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Reference Number
- 1992.573
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