flight research #5
Artist
Rosemary Laing
Australian, born 1959
Date1999
MediumChromogenic print
Dimensions42 3/8 x 94 1/4 in. (107.6 x 239.4 cm)
Frame: 49 1/4 x 101 1/4 x 2 3/8 in. (125.1 x 257.2 x 6 cm)
Frame: 49 1/4 x 101 1/4 x 2 3/8 in. (125.1 x 257.2 x 6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LinePurchased with funds from Charles Babcock and Dr. and Mrs. Lunsford Long, by exchange
Object number2003.5
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesHuston Paschal and Linda Johnson Dougherty, Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2003) 51, 140, 142, illus. (color) front cover, 142-43, (b-w) 50.
Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (November/December 2003), illus. (color) 30, detail (color) front cover.
Richard Maschal, "Images of the wonder - and menace - of flight make the imagination soar," Charlotte, NC: The Charlotte Observer (November 9, 2003), discussed and illus. 1H.
Linda Dougherty, "The BIG Picture," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (May/June 2007), mentioned 12.
Lauren H. Ryan, entry for flight research #5, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 586, illus. (color) 587.
Exhibition HistoryBrisbane, Australia, Brisbane City Gallery, "Rosemary Laing: A Survey 1995-2002," January 23-March 23, 2003.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight," November 2, 2003-March 7, 2004, cat. 51, 140, 142, illus. (color) front cover, 142-43, (b-w) 50.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The Big Picture," March 18-September 2, 2007.
Savannah, GA, Telfair Museum of Art's Jepson Center for the Arts, "Fast Forward: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," January 23-April 27, 2008.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women," May 1-November 27, 2011.
Blowing Rock, NC, Blowing Rock Art & History Museum, “Transformation,” March 20–August 21, 2021.
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