id: 536872
accession number: 2023.6
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2023.6
updated: 2023-08-24 01:53:18.738000
Untitled (Plate 36. Vertical and Latitudinal Distribution of Animal Life), 2022. Firelei Báez (American, b. 1981). Oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas; 226.7 x 271.1 x 3.8 cm (89 1/4 x 106 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller 2023.6
title: Untitled (Plate 36. Vertical and Latitudinal Distribution of Animal Life)
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creation date: 2022
creation date earliest: 2022
creation date latest: 2022
current location: 229C Contemporary
creditline: Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller
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culture: America
technique: Oil and acrylic on archival printed canvas
department: Contemporary Art
collection: CONTEMP - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Firelei Báez (American, b. 1981)
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measurements: 226.7 x 271.1 x 3.8 cm (89 1/4 x 106 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2023
opening date: 2023-04-07T04:00:00
Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2023. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 7-September 24, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Collection of the artist
date: 2022
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(James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 2023
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2023–
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fun fact:
The 1911 map used beneath this painting was sourced by the artist from the David Rumsey Map collection, an encyclopedic collection of historical maps and diagrams.
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Firelei Báez has become a leading voice in her generation of Latinx artists. Her work addresses themes that include histories of colonization, popular culture, and the natural world. In this painting, the underlying map is a 1911 diagram of the distribution of animal life across the globe. Báez layered a vibrant and gestural painting over the map. Her composition reimagines the spread of life throughout the world as a frenzied explosion of creation, untethered from rigid scientific study. Pulsing with life, the painting draws the viewer in and invites them to consider how the global biosphere is measured and quantified.
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Firelei Báez has become a leading voice in her generation of Latinx artists. Her work addresses themes that include histories of colonization, popular culture, and the natural world. In this painting, the underlying map is a 1911 diagram of the distribution of animal life across the globe. Báez layered a vibrant and gestural painting over the map. Her composition reimagines the spread of life throughout the world as a frenzied explosion of creation, untethered from rigid scientific study. Pulsing with life, the painting draws the viewer in and invites them to consider how the global biosphere is measured and quantified.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Báez, Firelei, Carla Acevedo-Yates, Mark Godfrey, Thelma Golden, Eva Respini, Legacy Russell. Firelei Báez : To Breathe Full and Free. New York: Gregory Miller & Company; New York: James Cohan, 2022.
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