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There Was More Time Than I Thought

A work made of graphite on white wove paper.

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  • A work made of graphite on white wove paper.

Date:

2002

Artist:

Laura Mosquera
American, born Panama, 1966

About this artwork

Mosquera earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and is known for paintings with saturated colors, but her drawings are marked by the use of blindingly white paper to create fields of negative space. Here she employed pattern and line to suggest the vivid forms found in her paintings. With the facial features of the figures difficult to make out, an overwhelming sense of isolation permeates the image.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Laura Mosquera

Title

There Was More Time Than I Thought

Place

United States (Artist's nationality)

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2002

Medium

Graphite on white wove paper

Dimensions

47.4 × 60.1 cm (18 11/16 × 23 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Adelaide C. Brown Fund

Reference Number

2002.496

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