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Craig Kauffman1968
- Attribution
- Craig Kauffman American, 1932–2010
- Medium
- Synthetic polymer on vacuum-formed acrylic plastic
- Physical dimensions
- 57.2 × 132.1 × 31.8 cm (22 1/2 × 52 × 12 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Baxter Travenol Laboratories
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Craig Kauffman pursued unorthodox materials from early in his career. Initial efforts in glass led him to engage less-fragile industrial plastics, and his first painted wall relief dates to the mid-1960s. Kauffman remains best known for the oblong bubble shape of works like Untitled , returning repeatedly not only to this shape but also to the perceptual effect generated by his painting of it: pearlescent, with a fuzzy, darkened contour, the edges of the relief appear to shimmer as if they might be permeable. Although vacuum-formed and slick, even impersonal, Untitled exudes a kind of sensuousness, as much biological as technological in its associations.
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