Object Details
- Lina Iris Viktor, born 1986, United States
- Description
- Deep black work on paper on which surface has raised patterns, some of which have been gilded with 24-karat gold leaf.
- Provenance
- Donald Homsher, California, 2017-2018
- Exhibition History
- Black Exodus, Act I: Materia Prima, Amar Gallery, London, September 12-October 31, 2017
- Published References
- Amar Gallery. Exhibition website: https://www.amargallery.com/blackexodus.
- Arteviste, January 27, 2016. “Interview with the artist Lina Iris Viktor in her New York Space Atelier LVXIX.” http://www.arteviste.com/arteviste/2015/12/16/an-interview-with-the-artist-lina-iris-viktor-in-her-new-york-studio.
- Cascone, Sarah, and Andrew Goldstein. March 9, 2018. “Rising Star Lina Iris Viktor Proves to Be More Than Just a Cause Celebre at the Armory Show,” https://news.artnet.com/market/mariane-ibrahim-abdis-lina-iris-viktor-armory-show-1240124.
- Cunningham, Erin. May 23, 2014. “Lina Iris Viktor is the Artist Who Paints with Gold.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/lina-viktor-is-the-artist-who-paints-with-gold.
- Grunitzky, Claude. March 19, 2017. “Lina Iris Viktor: The Artist Painting Modern Nubian Queens.” https://trueafrica.co/article/lina-iris-viktor-the-art-of-a-modern-nubian-queen/.
- Viktor, Lina Iris. Official website: http://www.linaviktor.com/about/
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- Credit Line
- Gift of Donald Homsher, Courtesy of Amar Gallery
- 2017
- Object number
- 2018-10-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © 2017 Lina Iris Viktor
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Pure 24K gold, acrylic, resin on cotton rag paper
- Dimensions
- Framed: 99.2 × 74.9 × 4.4 cm (39 1/16 × 29 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.)
- Paper: 91.4 × 66.7 cm (36 × 26 1/4 in.)
- Geography
- Liberia
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- National Museum of African Art Collection
- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- Human
- Writing
- cross
- geometric motif
- crescent
- spiral
- Record ID
- nmafa_2018-10-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys792f22746-1adf-41db-8cb9-f6bbceee92b4
