On View
Not on viewObject number2001.3
Human Knot
Artist
Nick Bubash
(American, 1949 - 2021)
Date2000
Mediumlithograph
Dimensionsimage: 21 5/8 × 16 1/8 in. (54.9 × 41 cm)
sheet: 24 13/16 × 16 1/8 in. (63 × 41 cm)
mat: 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm)
sheet: 24 13/16 × 16 1/8 in. (63 × 41 cm)
mat: 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm)
Credit LinePermanent Collection Fund
Exhibition History"BOO! Images of the Macabre," KIA Groos Gallery (Oct. 5, 2103 - Jan. 26, 2014).
"BOO! Images of the Macabre," Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD (August 21 - October 31, 2016).
"Surrealish: The Absurd and Unexpected," KIA Galleries 2 & 5 (June 4 - September 11, 2022)Label Text"Nick Bubash’s Human Knot shows a man who, even while fantastically contorted, can stand on one leg. Says the artist:
My father is Croatian, probably Turkish, my mother is Sicilian, a descendant of Sephardics, my family is Irish, my brother is Italian and Spanish, and my sisters married a Pole, a German, and a Hungarian (one each). My neighbors are African and Icelandic, my dog is a Maltese, my cats are from Siam, and I am reincarnated from India. My food is Algerian with bread from France, nuts from Brazil, tea from China and coffee from Kenya, my watch and cheese are Swiss, and my caviar is Russian. My car is Japanese, my shoes Bolivian, my shirt Pakistani, my carpets are Persian, my dishes and radio are from Mexico. My silverware and language are English. The children's toys are from Taiwan, my didgeridoo is Aboriginal. I am extremist by nature, my religion is fundamentalist by choice and my rabbi is Baptist. I wear the skin of a Maori and my art is at least, in part, if not completely, a result of the crisscross of the above.
-Nick Bubash, Artist Statement" [from the exhibition, Surrealish: The Absurd and Unexpected, 2022]
