ArtBabble: Rachel Whiteread
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enRachel Whiteread: "Ghost"
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<p>In her breakthrough 1990 work <a href="http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=131285" rel="nofollow"><em>Ghost</em></a>, Rachel Whiteread created a positive from a negative, making a plaster cast of the interior "void" of a Victorian parlor measuring approximately 9 feet wide, 11 1/2 feet high, and 10 feet deep. Whiteread has said of this sculpture that she was trying to "mummify the air in the room," hence the title.</p>
<p><a href="http://artbabble.org/video/ngadc/rachel-whiteread-ghost" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://artbabble.org/video/ngadc/rachel-whiteread-ghost#commentsBecoming / Being an ArtistRachel WhitereadContemporary ArtMaterials and ProcessObjectsNational Gallery of Art, Washingtonhttp://artbabble.org/sites/default/files/bvideos/ad/add8ac686c39de3d/poster-image-10.jpgadd8ac686c39de3dWed, 25 Aug 2010 17:01:19 +0000s-sarraf6980 at http://artbabble.orgRachel Whiteread's Water Tower Sketchbook
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On display in the Hammer exhibition Rachel Whiteread Drawings, the Water
Tower sketchbook documents Whiteread's process researching how to construct
the Water Tower. The Water Tower was on display in New York City from June
1998 - November 2000 atop a building at the corner of West Broadway and Grand
Street.
http://artbabble.org/video/hammer/rachel-whitereads-water-tower-sketchbook#commentsAllegra PesentiHammer ExhibitionsRachel WhitereadSculptureWater TowerMaterials and ProcessExhibitionsHammer Museumhttp://artbabble.org/sites/default/files/bvideos/75/758c0a367b38960f/poster-image-10.jpg758c0a367b38960fThu, 22 Apr 2010 01:33:57 +0000amandacarolinelaw6855 at http://artbabble.org