Self-Portrait June 4/66-July 21/74
1999
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