http://artbabble.org/artist/Rachel_Whiteread/feed en http://artbabble.org/video/ngadc/rachel-whiteread-ghost <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-institution"> <div class="field-label">Institution:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/partner/national-gallery-art-washington">National Gallery of Art, Washington</a> </div> </div> </div> <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#comments Becoming / Being an Artist Rachel Whiteread Contemporary Art Materials and Process Objects National Gallery of Art, Washington http://artbabble.org/sites/default/files/bvideos/ad/add8ac686c39de3d/poster-image-10.jpg add8ac686c39de3d Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:01:19 +0000 s-sarraf 6980 at http://artbabble.org http://artbabble.org/video/hammer/rachel-whitereads-water-tower-sketchbook <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-institution"> <div class="field-label">Institution:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/partner/hammer-museum">Hammer Museum</a> </div> </div> </div> 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#comments Allegra Pesenti Hammer Exhibitions Rachel Whiteread Sculpture Water Tower Materials and Process Exhibitions Hammer Museum http://artbabble.org/sites/default/files/bvideos/75/758c0a367b38960f/poster-image-10.jpg 758c0a367b38960f Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:33:57 +0000 amandacarolinelaw 6855 at http://artbabble.org