Folded Silhouettes, 1⁄5 Series

Margie Jervis, Susie Krasnican, Folded Silhouettes, 1/5 Series, 1983, fused plate glass with fired enamels, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Elmerina and Paul Parkman, 2000.106.7
Copied Margie Jervis, Susie Krasnican, Folded Silhouettes, 1/5 Series, 1983, fused plate glass with fired enamels, 11 1⁄4 x 8 1⁄8 x 7 7⁄8 in. (28.6 x 20.6 x 20.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Elmerina and Paul Parkman, 2000.106.7

Artwork Details

Title
Folded Silhouettes, 1⁄5 Series
Artists
Date
1983
Location
Dimensions
11 1⁄4 x 8 1⁄8 x 7 7⁄8 in. (28.6 x 20.6 x 20.0 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Elmerina and Paul Parkman
Mediums
Mediums Description
fused plate glass with fired enamels
Classifications
Object Number
2000.106.7
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2000.106.7

Artwork Description

In Folded Silhouettes, 1/5 Series, Margie Jervis and Susie Krasnican created an image of two vessels without making traditional vase or bowl forms. They used glass cut-out silhouettes of flat vase shapes and propped them up with another piece of glass perpendicular behind each one. The purple "shadow" of the yellow and pink vase silhouette is painted on the gray vase shape behind it so that their order of placement can never be altered. This creates a trompe l’oeil (trick of the eye) effect: at a certain angle, the piece appears to be two three-dimensional vessels.