File:Judith Simonian Villa San Itta 1988.jpg

Site-specific installation by Judith Simonian, Villa San Itta (site-specific installation, Hunters Point, Long Island City, NY, 1988, back and front images). The image illustrates a key early stage and distinct body of work by Judith Simonian from the late 1970s to 1990s, which centered on unpermitted, temporary street works at graffitied, decaying urban spaces and public commissions. These works transformed sites by sandblasting, excavating or painting out selected areas in order to create unexpected juxtapositions and provoke dialogue and alterations, often made in distinctly different visual vocabularies. This work and similar works were publicly exhibited in prominent public venues on both coasts of the United States (in Los Angeles and New York), commissioned by major institutions, and discussed in art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Judith Simonian. Copyright held by the artist.

Judith Simonian

Entire artwork

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The installation image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early stage and distinct body of work by Judith Simonian from the late 1970s to 1990s: her unpermitted, temporary street works at graffitied, decaying urban spaces and public commissions created on both coasts of the United States (in Los Angeles and New York). In these works, she transformed sites by sandblasting, excavating, painting out selected areas, or making architectural additions in order to create unexpected juxtapositions and humor and to provoke dialogue and alterations, often made in distinctly different visual vocabularies. 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 visualize this distinct three-dimensional body of work and key developmental phase (that would influence her painting), which brought wide recognition from major institutions, art journals, daily press publications, including commissions. Simonian's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Judith Simonian, and the installation no longer exists, 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.