About this artwork
Wanda Pimentel began her decade-long Involvement Series around 1965. As she put it a few years later, “My studio is in my bedroom. Everything has to be very neat… . I work alone. I think my issues are the issues of our time: the lack of perspective for people, their alienation. The saddest thing is for people to be dominated by things.” Throughout the series, Pimentel used a vivid yet limited color palette to depict domestic objects in enigmatic, compressed interiors. In this painting, a pair of feet peek out from below the horizon-like line of a red ironing board. The only other clues to the feet’s owner are the blouses on a rack and the ready iron: the trappings of stereotyped female labor and identity.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 289
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Wanda Pimentel
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Title
- Involvement Series
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Date
- Made 1968
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Medium
- Vinyl on canvas
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Dimensions
- 130 × 98 cm (51 1/4 × 38 5/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Through prior purchase from the Mary and Leigh Block Fund
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Reference Number
- 2016.66
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