Mining Industries: Downtown Boston
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Object Details
- Artist
- Norwood Viviano, born Royal Oak, MI 1972
- Exhibition Label
- In his Mining Industries series, Viviano uses high-resolution maps to render digital models of contemporary urban areas. He then prints these models with a 3-D printer and casts the patterns in glass, overlaying the resulting cityscapes onto historical maps and supporting them with fabricated steel. By revealing the transformation of each city over time, Viviano's artworks tell larger stories about the effects of urbanization and industry on our fragile communities. At the same time, the artist offers a reflection on the nature of the data itself, which sometimes conceals as much as it reveals.
- Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery, 2019
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Richard T. Evans Fund and the Decorative Arts and Crafts Endowment and gift of Ms. Pace Barnes
- Copyright
- © 2015, Norwood Viviano
- 2015
- Object number
- 2017.28
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Decorative Arts
- Crafts
- Medium
- glass and steel
- Dimensions
- 39 1/2 × 13 3/8 × 16 in. (100.3 × 34.0 × 40.6 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Renwick Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Cityscape\Massachusetts\Boston
- Architecture Exterior\commercial\skyscraper
- Object\written matter\map
- Record ID
- saam_2017.28
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk72af1ac8a-a218-4bda-9231-6a10d072afbf
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