Screenprint and lithograph printed to resemble the words Ceaseless, Endless, Timeless, Boundless spelled out in 1 1/2 inch wide blue painter's tape on a sheet of stained and scuffed paper.

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Ceaseless, Endless, Timeless, Boundless, 2010

Todd Norsten; Printer: Highpoint Editions, Minneapolis; Publisher: Highpoint Editions, Minneapolisexpand_more

Screenprint in blue ink, with lithographic additionsexpand_more

Highpoint Editions Archive, The Friends of Bruce B. Dayton Acquisition Fund and the Christina N. and Swan J. Turnblad Memorial Fundexpand_more  2020.85.89

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This editioned screenprint is among the best known of Todd Norsten’s trompe l’oeil (fool the eye) images of words and messages written with “masking tape.” Rendering this type of picture as a printed image—including the tactile thickness and texture of blue painter’s tape—required dismantling the image into fragmentary components that were then printed separately in perfect registration, or alignment—a demanding and precise undertaking. Countless layers of ink were needed to complete the visual effects. Norsten then added lithographic images of hair, dust, and miscellaneous workshop debris to imitate a scuffed and soiled sheet, which he also tore to be irregular in shape as a sly criticism of the preciousness of so much fine art.

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Title
Ceaseless, Endless, Timeless, Boundless
Artist Life
born 1967
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2020.85.89
Provenance
Highpoint Editions, Minneapolis (publisher); sold to MIA, 2020.
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Screenprint and lithograph printed to resemble the words Ceaseless, Endless, Timeless, Boundless spelled out in 1 1/2 inch wide blue painter's tape on a sheet of stained and scuffed paper.

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