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Sculpture by Bonnie Collura, Sleeping Death (Martyr Yellow) (1997). The image illustrates a key early body of work in Bonnie Collura's career beginning in the later 1990s, when she produced multi-media sculpture, tableaux and installations of interlocking, almost melted-looking figural and landscape elements that shifted between abstraction and figuration. These works mixed aesthetics and iconic fragments from art history and contemporary culture, as well as wide-ranging literary trop, as in this sculpture, which melds references to Bernini's The Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, the Persephone fertility myth, and Sleeping Beauty. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Bonnie Collura. Copyright held by the artist.

Bonnie Collura

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early body of work in Bonnie Collura's career beginning in the later 1990s: her figurative multi-media sculptures and installations created by processes of compositing and sampling. These works oscillated between abstraction and figuration, mixing aesthetics from baroque sculpture and contemporary animation, reconfigured literary tropes and iconic fragments from pop culture, art history and myth in hybridized, disjointed bodies, surrogate characters. They consisted of tableaux of interlocking, almost melted-looking figural and landscape elements: semi-organic shrouded fragments, gesturing limbs and forms resembling theatrical props, prototypes or the debris of childhood games that were hand-carved from foam insulation and smoothly painted. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this early, foundational body of work, which brought Collura early recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Collura's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Bonnie Collura, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.