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Untitled (Butterfly Videowall #2)

2008
131 x 127 1/2 in. (332.74 x 323.85 cm)

Diana Thater (San Francisco, California, 1962 - ) Primary

Medium and Support: 5-Flat screen LCD monitors, BrightSign player with SD card, HDMI Splitter, two fluorescent light fixtures and Lee light filters
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisitions Committee with additional funds provided by the Lipman Family Foundation.
Accession Number: 2016.05

Exhibition

Evergreen: Art from the Collection, July 23, 2022 – ongoing, Historic Wing Davies Gallery, San José Museum of Art.


Indestructible Wonder, April 18, 2016 - January 29, 2017, Second Floor, Central and North Galleries, San José Museum of Art.

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Indestructible Wonder (2016-2017)

Diana Thater often takes an animal’s interactions with its environment as a starting point to investigate ideas of space and time, believing that her work as an artist “is about rethinking the environment…rethinking how other beings live in the world…to change the way people see the world.” Prompted by threats to the monarch butterfly’s winter home in Michoacán, Mexico, Thater filmed the quick, bright movements of a single butterfly at the El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in 2003. The upturned monitors of Untitled (Butterfly Videowall #2), reflect the position of the insect as Thater encountered it roosting on the ground—an extremely vulnerable location. Suffusing the gallery with orange light, Thater created an apt metaphor for daybreak when the monarch opens its wings to the warmth of the sun—a meditative experience through which to consider the lives of other creatures who share this planet.

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