The Jazz Wall

MarisolWW-1963-013405

1963·Wood, found objects, paper, and paint on wood·241.3 × 271.8 × 35.6 cm (95 × 107 × 14 in.)

<p>One of the few female Pop artists, Marisol is known for juxtaposing flat surfaces with dimensional forms, painted and collaged elements with sculpted ones, and scavenged materials with handmade objects. As she stated in 1963, “I like to make combinations that seem incongruous—wood with plaster, pencil drawing on wood—but finally I put things where they belong: a hand at the end of an arm, a nose in the middle of the face . . . a mouth a little below the nose.” A more thematic or metaphorical incongruity animates the monumental <em>Jazz Wall</em>: the work is literally silent and still while summoning the expansiveness of collaborative sound.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1963
Medium: Wood, found objects, paper, and paint on wood
Dimensions: 241.3 × 271.8 × 35.6 cm (95 × 107 × 14 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Marisol

Artist

Marisol

Sculpture

Marisol Escobar, otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor born in Paris, who lived and worked in New York City. She became world-famous in the mid-1960s, but lapsed into relative obscurity within a decade. She continued to create her artworks and returned to the limelight in the early 21st century, capped by a 2014 major retrospective show organized by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. The largest retrospective of Marisol's artwork, Marisol: A Retrospective has been organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and curated by Cathleen Chaffee for these museums: the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and the Dallas Museum of Art . Although it was supplemented by loans from international museums and private collections, the exhibition drew largely on artwork and archival material Marisol left to the Buffalo AKG Art Museum as a bequest upon her death.

Paris, France

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