On View
Not on viewObject number2009.20
Ghost
Artist
Sorel Etrog
(Canadian, 1933 - 2014)
Date1969
Mediumintaglio
Dimensionsimage: 16 × 10 1/2 in. (40.6 × 26.7 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).Label TextThe focus of Sorel Etrog’s work is the tension in contemporary living. He describes his art as “tension created by pulling together and pulling apart, with being stuck and being freed, a world of grabbing and holding on and losing hold…bringing shapes together but at the same time giving each independence.” Working in two dimensions instead of his more usual sculptural medium, Etrog is able to create in this print an impossible form, a visual paradox. Form and empty space reverse as the outlines of linked, hammer-like forms at the top defy logic and define only empty space, laced closed, at the bottom.
