Blood from a Stone
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Kate Gilmore sets up scenarios in which she performs tasks that test her physical endurance, such as breaking out of confining spaces, scaling high walls, or moving heavy objects. These feats are at once potentially dangerous and seemingly meaningless, yet the artist enacts them repeatedly with unwavering determination and focus. Gilmore originally executed and recorded Blood from a Stone in the Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art before the work appeared in the 2009–10 exhibition Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video.
Caption
Kate Gilmore American, born 1975. Blood from a Stone, 2009. (a) Single-channel video, color, sound, 8 minutes 9 seconds; (b) plaster, wood, paint , (b) ten blocks, each: 12 x 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, (a) Gift of the Council for Feminist Art and gift of Katherine Ordway, by exchange (b) Gift of Robert D. Bielecki, 2010.16a-b. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, DIG_E2009_Reflections_on_the_Electric_Mirror_10_PS2.jpg)
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Not on view
Gallery
Not on view
Artist
Title
Blood from a Stone
Date
2009
Medium
(a) Single-channel video, color, sound, 8 minutes 9 seconds; (b) plaster, wood, paint
Classification
Dimensions
(b) ten blocks, each: 12 x 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Credit Line
(a) Gift of the Council for Feminist Art and gift of Katherine Ordway, by exchange (b) Gift of Robert D. Bielecki
Accession Number
2010.16a-b
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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