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Deployment in Wonderland
2007
60 x 80 in. (152.4 x 203.2 cm)
Kara Maria (Binghamton, New York, 1968 - ) Primary
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, March 1, 2014 - August 24, 2014, New Wing, First floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection (2014)
Kara Maria merges popular culture with images of war to unsettling effect. In her work, Maria explores the relationship between politics, pornography, and America’s military ventures through a combination of loose, gestural brushwork and superbly rendered figures and corporate logos. Deployment in Wonderland features several miniature soldiers who have come upon a large, voluptuous, naked woman lying on her side. While a few soldiers walk on her body and peek out of the crevices of her legs and arms, others with their guns raised patrol the open area in front of her as if guarding their prize.
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Deployment in Wonderland
Painting
200760 x 80 in. (152.4 x 203.2 cm)
Kara Maria (Binghamton, New York, 1968 - ) Primary
Object Type: Painting
Medium and Support: Acrylic on canvas
Credit Line: Gift of the artist and the Catharine Clark Gallery
Accession Number: 2013.08
Exhibition
Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, March 1, 2014 - August 24, 2014, New Wing, First floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
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Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection (2014)
Kara Maria merges popular culture with images of war to unsettling effect. In her work, Maria explores the relationship between politics, pornography, and America’s military ventures through a combination of loose, gestural brushwork and superbly rendered figures and corporate logos. Deployment in Wonderland features several miniature soldiers who have come upon a large, voluptuous, naked woman lying on her side. While a few soldiers walk on her body and peek out of the crevices of her legs and arms, others with their guns raised patrol the open area in front of her as if guarding their prize.
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- Image Dimensions: 60 x 80 in. (152.4 x 203.2 cm)
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