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He Seems Different, from the portfolio Soul Erased
Image Not Available for He Seems Different, from the portfolio Soul Erased

He Seems Different, from the portfolio Soul Erased

Artist (American, born 1948)
Date1999
MediumLithograph, screenprint, embossing, and hand-work on paper Edition 8/20
DimensionsSheet: 30 × 22 3/8 inches (76.2 × 56.8 cm);
Frame: 35 1/4 × 27 3/4 inches (89.5 × 70.5 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineAcquired through the David M. Solinger, Class of 1926, Endowment
Terms
  • Prints
  • Lithograph
  • Screenprint
  • Embossing
  • Paper
  • American
Object number2016.053 a
Label CopyJoyce J. Scott’s series narrates the harrowing tale of a youth driven by unknown circumstances to commit violent crimes. Unable to free himself from this cycle despite interventions from angels, he winds up in a place where, as Scott enigmatically says, “there is no future.” The series begins with a T-shirt clad boy beneath a canopy of flowers. As he transforms into a gun- wielding black skeleton, the eyes of the community are upon him, and even the blood-red angel’s attempt to save him appears futile. The final, eponymous print of Soul Erased shows the original figure suspended upside-down on a nearly empty background, suggesting final retribution but also, as the artist argues, rebirth. ("All for One and One for All: Portfolios from the Permanent Collection," co-curated by Andrea Inselmann and Sonja Gandert and presented at the Johnson Museum June 24-August 20, 2017)
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