File:Kathleen Kucka Obscure Suggestive 2002.jpg

Painting by Kathleen Kucka, Obscure Suggestive (acrylic paint on aluminum panel, 30" x 30", 2002). The image illustrates a body of work by Kathleen Kucka in the 2000s: her paintings made by pouring acrylic paint directly onto wooden or aluminum panels and leaving flows of paint to be directed by gravity and fluid dynamics. While abstract, the paintings', circular and concentric forms, dizzying patterns, and surprising depth alluded to phenomena such as polished agate specimens, cells, bone and cranial matter, melted vanilla ice cream, wood grain, enlarged fingerprints or honeycombs. This type of work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Kathleen Kucka. Copyright held by the artist.

Kathleen Kucka

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a mid-career body of work by Kathleen Kucka from the 2000s, when she shifted from her "burn" works to pieces made by pouring acrylic paint directly onto wooden or aluminum panels, leaving flows of paint to be directed by gravity and fluid dynamics. Critics described them as balanced between abstraction and a wide range of allusive suggestion. These paintings were dominated by floating, circular forms, dizzying patterns, and surfaces of surprising depth created by varying densities and viscosities of paint. Such qualities were enhanced by Kucka's use of a spare tonal range and a limited, nuanced palette of ivories, pale taupe, honey and grays. 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 these later developments and bodies of work, which brought Kucka ongoing recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Kucka'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 Kathleen Kucka, 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.