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Spatial (Fragment)

2000-2001

American, born 1964

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

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySaint Louis, Missouri, Saint Louis Art Museum, Currents 85: Dave Muller: Spatial, Sept. 21 - Nov. 25, 2001.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Reverberations: Contemporary Art and Modern Classics, Dec. 22, 2022 - ongoing [on view beginning June 14, 2023].

Published ReferencesAgustín Pérez Rubío, ed. Dave Muller: I Like Your Music I Love Your Music (Manchester, England: JRP Editions, 2009). No cat. no., reproduced p. 150.

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