Night Sky 3

Carmen Schilaci|Jennifer Turner|Vija Celmins|Gemini G.E.L.

2002 · One-color aquatint with burnishing and drypoint · Drawings and Prints

Celmins’s oeuvre is characterized by an embrace of formal and technical challenges and by a rich and prolonged engagement with a limited group of subjects. Central among these motifs is a star-filled night sky, shown tightly cropped and at a slight angle. Instead of dramatic black-and-white contrasts, Night Sky 3 has gentle gradations of gray, which, combined with the hazy and slightly out-of-focus quality of the image, reaffirm the connection to its photographic source.

Artist

Carmen Schilaci|Jennifer Turner|Vija Celmins|Gemini G.E.L.

Date

2002

Medium

One-color aquatint with burnishing and drypoint

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Vija Celmins, 2003