Let Us Put Our Heads Together

Andrew Guenther, American, born 1976

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2005

Acrylic and colored pencil on paper

Overall: 33 × 25 1/8 in. (83.8 × 63.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ninah and Michael Lynne

© Andrew Guenther

2018.37.134

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

21st century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Label

Highlighter yellow and neon pink playfully disrupt this work’s white negative space and distort our initial perceptions. The humorous and lighthearted title hints at its unexpected subject: a gathering of skulls.Guenther’s early work delves into themes of mortality while striving to find “beauty in darkness.” The ethereally suspended skulls impart a certain weightlessness to death, challenging our traditional notions of its heaviness and despair.

From the 2024 exhibition, A Space for Dialogue 116, Apocalypse When: reflections on our collective psyche, Molly Rouzie '24, Homma Family Intern

Course History

Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Floriana Ciniglia, Winter 2024

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 116, Apocalypse When: reflections on our collective psyche, Molly Rouzie '24, Homma Family Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 6 - March 2, 2024

Provenance

The artist, Brooklyn, New York, 2005; Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, California, date unknown; Anonymous gift; given to present collection, 2018.

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