%C2%A9 Dusty Herbig
Untitled (#556), from "Suicide Bomb Series", 2004
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Color inkjet prints, with lithography and screenprintingexpand_more
Gift of funds from the Print and Drawing Curatorial Councilexpand_more 2004.156.2.2
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Los Angeles-based artist Dusty Herbig explores issues of population expansion and its close relationship to violent conflict. In Herbig's view, increasing competition for land, water, food, fossil fuels, and other scare resources are a major cause of the world's disputes. He examines these issues through systems of counting, statistics, and the cataloguing of conflicts, often using violent and militaristic imagery to evoke feelings of fear.
In this powerful series of prints, Herbig warns of the dangers of conflict with photographic images of the aftermath of suicide bombings. Each terrorist attack is numbered, as if routine. Hands, the tools of destruction, reach across blood-spattered surfaces. It is a wake-up call.
Details
- Title
- Untitled (#556), from "Suicide Bomb Series"
- Artist Life
- born 1971
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2004.156.2.2
- Provenance
- Acquired from the artist
- Curator Approved
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