Panya Clark Espinal

Research and Discovery

1988
Category: 
Later Canadian Art
Panya Clark has made replicas, with infinite care and only as far as it was possible to do so, of cultural and natural artifacts as they were photographed for the pages of National Geographic. In doing so, she reflects her desire as an artist to behold the actual object, more powerful than any image.
Artist
Title
Research and Discovery
Date
1988
Medium
Sculpture
Materials
paint, wood, cloth, wax, metal, feathers, glass bottles, plaster, polyester resin, paper, thread, rubber, graphite and coloured pencil on paper, wooden chair, work table, artist's tools and materials, cardboard tubes, masonite, National Geographic magazines
Dimensions
installation space: 3 x 3.26 x 5.18 m
Nationality
Canadian
Credit line
Purchased 1996
Accession number
38200