Projecting Planes
Artist: Irene Rice Pereira (American, 1902-1971)
Date: 1947
Dimensions:
Painting: 30 1/8 × 40 1/8 in. (76.5 × 101.9 cm)
Frame: 40 3/4 × 51 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (103.5 × 130.2 × 6.4 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 1948.71
Label Text:“Without form and structure, there can be no content.”
—Irene Rice Pereira
Fascinated since childhood with light both as a physical phenomenon and as a metaphysical force, I. Rice Pereira explored this interest beginning in the 1930s in luminous abstract paintings, sometimes on glass. In 1935 she became a founder and faculty member of the industrial arts school the Design Laboratory in New York City, where she required her painting students to take classes in chemistry, industrial mechanics, and optics. Pursuing the relationship between art and science, she saw her work as interpreting humankind’s “plane of existence” in the space-time continuum.
—Irene Rice Pereira
Fascinated since childhood with light both as a physical phenomenon and as a metaphysical force, I. Rice Pereira explored this interest beginning in the 1930s in luminous abstract paintings, sometimes on glass. In 1935 she became a founder and faculty member of the industrial arts school the Design Laboratory in New York City, where she required her painting students to take classes in chemistry, industrial mechanics, and optics. Pursuing the relationship between art and science, she saw her work as interpreting humankind’s “plane of existence” in the space-time continuum.
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