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Sculpture by Alyson Shotz, Object for Reflection (punched aluminum and stainless steel rings, 122.5" x 145" x 57", 2017. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection). The image illustrates a key body of work in Alyson Shotz 's career in the 2010s: her series of vertical, tapestry-like sculptures and installations made of thousands of pieces of perforated aluminum joined by steel rings. They featured a flexible, open construction allowing them to dramatically slump and fold and appear both solid and transparent, with shimmering responses to changing sunlight that evoked patterns ranging from natural (the sun on rippling water) to human-made (fabric, chain mail) to digital (screen pixels). The resulting effects—visual flux, spatial distortion, kaleidoscopic effects, and illusions of movement due to shifts in light and vantage point—produce perceptual conundrums for viewers.This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and venues, acquired by a major museum, and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Alyson Shotz. Copyright held by the artist.

Alyson Shotz

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work in Alyson Shotz 's career in the 2010s, when she created a series of sculptures and installations that were vertical, tapestry-like works made of thousands of octagonal pieces of perforated aluminum joined by steel rings. Critics suggest that this work recalls minimalist constructions, but stretches the boundaries of modernist sculpture, subverting ostensibly masculine tenets such as solidity, weight and fixity with qualities of fluidity, weightlessness, permeability and translucency that create volume without mass through the use of line, void, and carefully selected materials. Other aspects of this work include a blend of minimal and organic forms like Eva Hesse, and an interest in the viewer as an active participant, like the conceptual artist Lygia Clark. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key body of work, which brought Shotz wide recognition through museum exhibitions and acquisitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Shotz's work of this type and this work are discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Alyson Shotz, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.