underwater electric greenhouse

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Titleunderwater electric greenhouse

Artist Sangram Majumdar (b. 1976)

Date2014

MediumOil on linen

DimensionsUnframed: 84 x 66 in.

SignedSigned on vertical crossbar on verso: "SANGRAM MAJUMDAR"

SubmissionNA diploma presentation, August 18, 2021

Credit Line National Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Sangram Majumdar

Object number2021.12

Label TextMajumdar’s large-scale painting is derived from a seamless digital collage further worked with marker, pastel, and charcoal. We can make out a jumble of plant fronds, directional flecks, and grounds, and are clued in by the title “underwater electric greenhouse". The painting, which plays on levels of perception, has the nocturnal, aquatic colors of a fish tank; viridian and cinnabar greens light up against a rich, waxy black. The underlying representational imagery has been flipped or inverted with negative and positive space given equal emphasis.

As the artist related, "It's a painting that sits at the crossroads of a lot of things for me, procedurally, thematically, and chromatically. It's a painting that really gave me hell, and I have fond memories of sticking to it, knowing it's going somewhere"

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