File:Elizabeth King MASS MoCA Radical Small 2017-8.jpg

Image of Elizabeth King exhibition "Radical Small", photographs from the edition "Eight Views of a Sculpture," MASS MoCA, 2017–8). The image illustrates a key aspect of Elizabeth King's work in the 2000s: her multimedia exhibitions centered on her figurative sculptures placed them in a wide range of contexts. These exhibitions including custom vitrines and display cases housing both her sculptures and source materials, animations, photographs, mixed media installations, and in the case of this show, a live filmmaking component in the gallery in which King worked in front of viewers with a stop-motion animator on a custom-built, vibration-free platform stage for seven days. The exhibitions have been described as evoking both her warehouse-size studio and a 16th-century cabinet of curiosities. These exhibition were held in prominent institutions and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications as cited.

Artist Elizabeth King. Copyright held by the artist.

Elizabeth King (artist)

Exhibition image

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key aspect of Elizabeth King's art in the 2000s, when she mounted multimedia exhibitions centered on her figurative sculptures that placed them in a wide range of contexts—custom vitrines, display cases also housing her source materials, animations, photographs and mixed media installations—that used minimal means to convey emotional and psychological nuance: subtle movement, acute attention to pose, spare lighting and careful composition. Critics have suggested this co-presentation of her work across media—with resulting discrepancies in scale, substance and identification—creates a sense of uncertainty and uncanniness that blurs perceptual boundaries between actual and virtual object, illusion and reality, human and non-human. 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 key aspect of her work, which brought King ongoing recognition through museum exhibitions and acquisitions and coverage by major critics and publications. King'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 Elizabeth King, 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.