Rabbit
Artist
Melanie Walker
(American, born 1949)
Date1993, printed 2016
Mediumdistressed negative, archival pigment print
DimensionsImage: 12 1/16 × 12 1/16 inches (30.6 × 30.6 cm)
Sheet: 19 × 13 inches (48.3 × 33 cm)
Sheet: 19 × 13 inches (48.3 × 33 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Artist, 2016
Object number2016.8.10.1
ClassificationsPhotographs
Label TextMelanie Walker’s Rabbit is part of her series, Endangered Species. She created haunting imagery with jarring juxtapositions, such as the rabbit head on the human body, holding a rabbit marionette. She wrote about the series. “The Endangered Species project imagines a time after all the animals are gone; people dress in animal costumes to reenact the hunt.” Melanie is the daughter of photographer Todd Walker, and like him, she experiments with photographic processes. She described one way she “distressed” negatives. She painted rubbercement on parts of a negative. Then she immersed it in a laundry detergent or sodium carbonate. The distressing produces a surreal effect. Connect with J. J. Audubon’s Grey Rabbit.
ProvenanceArtist; gifted October 19, 2016 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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