Rachel Whiteread: "Ghost"

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Rachel Whiteread's Ghost at the National Gallery of Art
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Rachel Whiteread began working in London during the mid-1980s when she was a student at the Slade School of Fine Art. For the past fifteen years she has pursued and developed various approaches to casting as both a process and a vehicle for content. Working initially in wax and plaster, then later in resin, Whiteread created uncanny replicas of ordinary objects, parts of the body, and eventually, empty space.

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Biography of Rachel Whiteread
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Born in 1963, Rachel Whiteread began working in London during the mid-1980s when she was a student at the Slade School. From the beginning her work was closely engaged with the legacy of minimal and post-minimal art, including such figures as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Eva Hesse. Eventually she turned to the casting process--initially in wax and plaster, later in resin--that allowed her to create quasi-abstract replicas of ordinary objects, parts of the body, and eventually empty space.

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In her breakthrough 1990 work Ghost, 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. Whiteread created Ghost over a period of three months in an abandoned building at 486 Archway Road, North London, covering the interior walls with multiple plaster molds, each about five inches thick. When the plaster dried, she peeled the molds from the walls and reassembled them on a steel frame. In this interview Whiteread discusses the process of making Ghost and lends new insight to her work.

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