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Involvement Series

Dark blue shades create the background with a red ironing board and red and white iron and clothes hanging above it. White feet poke just out from the ironing board.

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  • Dark blue shades create the background with a red ironing board and red and white iron and clothes hanging above it. White feet poke just out from the ironing board.

Date:

1968

Artist:

Wanda Pimentel
Brazilian, 1943-2019

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.

Status

On View, Gallery 289

Department

Contemporary Art

Artist

Wanda Pimentel

Title

Involvement Series

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1968

Medium

Vinyl on canvas

Dimensions

130 × 98 cm (51 1/4 × 38 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Through prior purchase from the Mary and Leigh Block Fund

Reference Number

2016.66

Extended information about this artwork

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