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[ Artwork description: An image broken into a geometric pattern of triangles. Each triangle contains a different print, including zebra print, hardwood print, orange with small darker dots, solid red, solid blue, solid orange, solid lilac and a print of white house siding. The triangle in the top right of the image contains an image of a Black man crying hysterically holding a white object. ]
Kyle Avery
Jay , 2016
Artwork Type: Drawings
Medium: Collage on paper
Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 15 in. (29.21 x 38.1 cm)
Accession #: 20162501
Department: Alumni Collection
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , gift of Michael A. Boots
Related Exhibition:
Double Play
Copyright: © Kyle Avery
Object Label:
Show Object Label(s)Kyle Avery worked on the four collage works for his master’s thesis at University at Albany, gathering about one-hundred source images as a visual codex to make his Slam Dunk series. Basketball and its visual language are front and center within Avery’s collages—from the players,
the ball itself, the clothing, the court, and basketball strategy patterning.
Within Hoop Dreams and Untitled Avery seems to mimic the lines and arrows drawn on a coach’s clipboard to illustrate a play for their players. Avery cuts his collage materials in Jay and Len as a way to deconstruct the basketball and the patterning of the hardwood floor of a basketball
court. By using collage as his medium, Avery is able to break down and reassemble the building blocks of basketball to create visually intriguing
compositions.
–Double Play
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