Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by Jorge M. Pérez, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and PAMM Ambassadors for Black Art
A Single Drawn Line is a 2014 work by Cuban artist Juana Valdes. Created as a digital print on Epson paper, the piece measures approximately forty-one inches tall by twenty-nine inches wide. It is presented in portrait orientation, meaning that its shortest side runs parallel to the ground. The work shows a still life composition that reproduces arrangements from the artist’s exhibition An Inherent View of the World. The scene is set against a white background on a white table surface. The central object is a black wooden sculpture that resembles a traditional African figure of a person, with an elongated form and upright posture. To the left sits a white china or porcelain dish with scalloped, ruffled edges. On the right, a white bowl with a floral print sits on the table. Due to the high exposure of the photograph, these white floral-printed bowls and dishes nearly blend into the white background. The lighting is soft and even, creating gentle shadows throughout the composition. All objects rest on the white table surface, with the overall tonal range moving from the deep black of the wooden sculpture through various whites, punctuated by the subtle floral pattern on the bowl.
Juana Valdes
Juana Valdes — b. 1963, Pinar del Río, Cuba; lives in Miami and Amherst, Massachusetts Artist Page
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