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

1999

Swedish, born 1966

Seattle-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.

Oil on canvas

54 x 75 1/2 x 2 in. (137.2 x 191.8 x 5.1 cm)

Gift of SAM's Avant-garde

2001.11

Not currently on view

Resources

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)

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