Spatial (Fragment)
2000-2001
Dave Muller’s dual career as an artist and DJ led him to an interest in how popular music shapes our individual and collective identities. In this work, he draws on the album cover of Pink Floyd’s blockbuster Dark Side of the Moon, released in 1973. With its experimental atmospheric sounds, enigmatic space-age title, and cover design featuring a prism floating in a black void, the album evoked futurist ideas of outer space. Muller uses these ideas as a jumping off point for his group of drawings that explode beyond the limits of the square album cover, suggesting the limitless expanse of the cosmos.
Acrylic on paper
Framed:
6 frames: 34 x 42 in. (86.4 x 106.7 cm)
3 frames: 24 x 34 in. (61 x 86.4 cm)
2 frames: 16 x 19 in. (40.6 x 48.3 cm)
2 frames: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
2 frames: 9 x 6 1/2 in. (22.9 x 16.5 cm)
2 frames: 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (21.6 x 16.5 cm)
Gift of Lee Plested and Erik von Mueller
2021.22.5
Provenance: The artist; [Murray Guy, New York]; purchased by Lee Plested, Bellingham, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, 2004; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2021