Birds at Home

Artist Julie Blackmon (American, born 1966)

Date2007

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 22 × 22 3/16 inches (55.88 × 56.36 cm)
Sheet: 24 1/16 × 24 5/8 inches (61.12 × 62.55 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2008.13.2

SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in black pen: "Julie Blackmon"

InscribedOn sheet recto, lower right, in black pen: "Birds at Home, '07 / #15/25"

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 15/25

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Not on view

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DescriptionImage of five children seated, lying down, and standing, on and around a dining room table. The smallest child pets a black and white cat seated in the center of the table. A crystal chandlier hangs above the table which is in the center of a blue room with a wall of windows across the back.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 25. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 19, 2018- March 17, 2019, no cat.

Domestic Vacations. Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA (2007); Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO (2006); Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA (2006); Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL (2006), no cat.

Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 26, 2009 – February 21, 2010, no cat.

Gallery Label

In Birds at Home, Julie Blackmon depicts a group of children paused in a moment of controlled chaos. Though assembled in one scene, none of the children appears to interact. Rather, they seem immersed in their own singular imaginations. Blackmon creates her scenes using digital editing software. Working with family and friends as models, she makes numerous digital captures and meticulously stitches a selection together to compose her final image.

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2008;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2008.

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