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Image Not Available for Self-Portrait June 4/66-July 21/74
Self-Portrait June 4/66-July 21/74
Image Not Available for Self-Portrait June 4/66-July 21/74

Self-Portrait June 4/66-July 21/74

Date1999
Label TextSeattle-based artist Lisa Liedgren used the computer to translate elements of her autobiography into an abstract painting, first transcribing the moon phases from the day of her birth until the time she was eight years old. After applying these patterns to the canvas with a template, she painted the surface by hand, blurring the crisply traced lines and lending an impression of the handmade to the work.
Object number2001.11
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Dis-Figured", May 31, 2001 - March 17, 2002 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "International Abstraction: Making Painting Real", May 2, 2003 - February 29, 2004, (5/2/2003-2/29/2004)
Credit LineGift of SAM's Avant-garde
Dimensions54 x 75 1/2 x 2 in. (137.2 x 191.8 x 5.1 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
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