
© Valerie Arber
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© Valerie Arber
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Valerie Arber
American, born 1949
Untitled, 2002
paper debossing
sheet: 8 x 8 inches (20.32 x 20.32 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Gift of Lisa Forman Neall and Gabrielle Forman, 2012
2012:66.2
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Provenance
the artist;2003, purchased by Natalie and Irving Forman, Santa Fe, New Mexico;
Lisa Forman Neall and Gabrielle Forman;
December 13, 2012, donated to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
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This information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms
To create a debossed print, an artist presses wet paper between printing plates that leave the paper fibers permanently fixed in a new configuration. This work is considered a “blind debossing” because Valerie Arber did not apply any ink to these depressed areas. Her only intervention was to introduce subtle differences in depth. In rendering a linear construction without ever applying drawn lines, Arber’s work on paper is evocative of three-dimensional sculpture.
Label from The Swindle: Art Between Seeing and Believing, May 26–October 28, 2018