Bread Winner
Series TitleMid—
Artist
Elise Kirk
(American, born 1978)
Date2014; printed 2024
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 22 × 27 1/2 inches (55.88 × 69.85 cm)
Sheet: 25 × 30 1/2 inches (63.5 × 77.47 cm)
Framed: 25 7/8 × 31 3/8 × 2 inches (65.72 × 79.69 × 5.08 cm)
Sheet: 25 × 30 1/2 inches (63.5 × 77.47 cm)
Framed: 25 7/8 × 31 3/8 × 2 inches (65.72 × 79.69 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number2024.56
SignedPer framer: signed on mount verso, on label.
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 2/10
On View
Not on viewGallery Location
- L11
Collections
Terms
By the time Elise Kirk encountered this loaf of yeast bread at the Missouri State Fair, the prizewinning entry had begun to mold. She found symbolism in this specimen, which had won a premium blue ribbon in the men's category. "To me, there was something poetic about it," Kirk recalls. "I saw this tension between aspiration and growing stale, which comes from stasis."
Elise Kirk, Lawrence, KS, 2024;
Gifted by her to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.
Gifted by her to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.
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