Heirs Come to Pass, 3

Copied Martina Lopez, Heirs Come to Pass, 3, 1991, silver dye bleach print made from digitally assisted montage, sheet, image and mount: 30 x 50 in. (76.2 x 127.0 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation, 1998.85, © 1998, Martina Lopez

Artwork Details

Title
Heirs Come to Pass, 3
Artist
Date
1991
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet, image and mount: 30 x 50 in. (76.2 x 127.0 cm.)
Copyright
© 1998, Martina Lopez
Credit Line
Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation
Mediums Description
silver dye bleach print made from digitally assisted montage
Classifications
Keywords
  • Figure group
  • Allegory — life — family
Object Number
1998.85
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1998.85

Artwork Description

Most families assemble photo albums—scrapbooks brimming with the faces of relatives dimly remembered, photographs of parents looking younger than we ever knew them, or images of ourselves as children—that create a loosely assembled history. Rather than drawing on her own family’s past, however, Martina Lopez collaged pictures of anonymous individuals she found in second-hand stores into digitally created tableaux that are at once familiar and haunting. Charged with implied narratives that we can never completely understand, her images resonate with our own experiences to remind us of the complicated patterns of our lives.

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