The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Untitled #171 (Tar Pit)

Untitled #171 (Tar Pit)

2012
(Norwegian, b. 1973)
image and paper: 160 x 204.5 cm (63 x 80 1/2 in.)
© Simen Johan, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, NYC
Location: not on view

Description

One of the earliest artists to combine darkroom practice with digital manipulation, Johan uses Photoshop to meld hundreds of shots of animals, plants, and landscapes he has taken around the world into beautiful, compelling, yet eerie new ecologies. This image sets a tar pit in an Icelandic volcano and populates it with Peruvian yellow-headed blackbirds.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.76