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In situ

Untitled

2017

Medium/Technique Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions Overall (Widest points): 182.2 × 241.3 cm (71 3/4 × 95 in.)
Overall (Smallest points): 179.1 × 238.1 cm (70 1/2 × 93 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Frank B. Bemis Fund
Accession Number2019.1816
CollectionsContemporary Art
ClassificationsPaintings
This painting—like much of Vivian Suter’s work—is a document not only of the artist’s hand, but of the natural environment surrounding her as she creates. Working in and around her studio and home in Panajachel, Guatemala, Suter integrates variables like rain, mud, sunlight, humidity, leaves, sticks, wind, and fish glue into her paintings. Sometimes this includes the consequences of catastrophic storms. As she moves her canvases back and forth from indoors to outdoors, she invites her dogs to participate in her artmaking process by sitting on paintings, walking across them, pawing them, or just playing nearby.

Provenance2017, the artist to Karma International, Zurich, Swtizerland; 2019, sold by Karma International to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2019)
Copyright© Vivian Suter