id: 286688 accession number: 2016.61 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.61 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:50.535000 Tires in the Flats, View from Eagle Street Bridge, 1993. Penny Rakoff (American, b. 1951). Chromogenic print; image: 93.9 x 76.2 cm (36 15/16 x 30 in.); framed: 119.3 x 99 cm (46 15/16 x 39 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Eli Becker 2016.61 Gift of Eli Becker title: Tires in the Flats, View from Eagle Street Bridge title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1993 creation date earliest: 1993 creation date latest: 1993 current location: creditline: Gift of Eli Becker copyright: --- culture: America technique: Chromogenic print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Penny Rakoff (American, b. 1951) Penny Rakoff American, 1951- An astute understanding of color and light characterizes the images of Penny Rakoff. Trained in painting at the University of Michigan, Rakoff has translated her interest in color theory and composition to her photographic work. By controlling and manipulating natural and artificial light in extended night-time exposures, she conjures spectral, often surreal displays from otherwise banal subject matter. For Color Pleasures of Miami, her earliest body of photographs in this vein (1978), Rakoff traveled the Florida city and its suburbs. The preponderance of illuminated palm trees, lawn ornaments, and glowing swimming pools proved an environment well suited to her concerns. She has continued to explore the fabricated nature of American culture in Akron Landscapes, seeking out residential and industrial sites to photograph at night in her trademark aurora of lights. Rakoff was born in New York City and raised on Long Island. After earning her B.F.A. from the University of Michigan (1973), she pursued photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology (M.F.A., 1976) and with Nathan Lyons at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester (1978). After teaching for a year at the State University of New York College at Oswego, in 1978 Rakoff relocated to Ohio to accept a position at the University of Akron, where she continues to teach. She is the recipient of awards from the Ohio Arts Council (1981, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1994) and from the Cleveland Museum of Art for her entries in the museum's regional juried exhibition, the May Show (1984, 1987). In recent years, Rakoff has also turned her attention to the production of public art and installations. She lives in Cleveland. A.W.
Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. --- measurements: Image: 93.9 x 76.2 cm (36 15/16 x 30 in.); Framed: 119.3 x 99 cm (46 15/16 x 39 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: No visible inscriptions could be located while the work is still framed translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES