Nationality
American
Preview
Date of Work
1982
Medium
Serigraph, diptych
Edition #
8 of 15
Signature
On back
Height
24"
Width
37"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection
Status
Displayed
Location
Merrifield Hall
Additional Information
Information provided by Zachary Miller:
Peggy Thurston Farrell (American)
Between the Layers, 1981
Silkscreen
Purchased with funds from the Myers Foundations
University Art Collections: Art & Design Study Collection
Peggy Thurston Farrell studied art education at Carroll College in 1972 and later obtained a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has been showcased globally, throughout her career. Her current work has moved towards symbolism and three-dimensional presentations.
Between the Layers owes its origins to underground treasures and artifacts, which inspired the production of this work. Hard-edge painting and post-painterly abstraction are two artistic movements, originating in the 1950s and ending in the 1970s, that share similarities to Thurston Farrell’s work. These similarities are a consequence of the temporal relation of her 1981 Between the Layers silkscreen to artwork of the 1980s. Abstract art of that era was largely a combination of earlier abstract movements.
Part of a diptych, other half is missing.
Condition
Very good, small damage on front of work