Dark Prayer

Inscriptions

Signed and inscribed, on reverse, above center, in graphite: "Dark Prayer" / Glantzman 2016; inscribed, on reverse, top, right of center, in graphite, lightly: David and Globe; signed, on reverse, top, left of center, in graphite, lightly: Glantzman / 2015

Label

This work’s repetition of faces, objects, scribbles, and symbols in a variety of media makes for an overwhelming, cacophonous composition. In addition, no repetition of forms is exactly the same, giving the work an organic unpredictability that draws the viewer into something different each time they look. Skulls and dark muddled colors evoke a sense of loss that is pierced by the stark white prayer hands.

Here, Glantzman offers the viewer a glimpse into her mind, where the people she has loved and the experiences she has had take their tumultuous shape. At the center of the paper is David Wojnarowicz, artist and dear friend of Glantzman. Both were part of the vibrant art scene in lower Manhattan during the AIDS epidemic, and this work simultaneously mourns the loss of Wojnarowicz to AIDS and expresses Glantzman’s broader relationship to her lived grief.

From the 2024 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 119, Embracing Vulnerability: Gay Intimacy in the Context of AIDS, curated by Colin Donnelly '24, Class of 1954 Intern

Course History

SART 76, Senior Seminar, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2020

SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Colleen Randall, Spring 2022

Studio Art 15.01, Drawing I, Enrico Riley, Winter 2023

Studio Art 31.01/72.01, Painting II/III, Colleen Randall, Spring 2023

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Spring 2023

Studio Art 15.03, Drawing I, Andrew Shea, Fall 2023

Studio Art 15.04, Drawing I, Enrico Riley, Fall 2023

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Fall 2023

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 119, Embracing Vulnerability: Gay Intimacy in the Context of AIDS, Colin Donnelly '24, Class of 1954 Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 13 - September 1, 2024.

Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Judy Glantzman: Vigilant on Behalf of Kindness, January 9–March 4, 2018.

Judy Glantzman, 1979 to Today," Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, New York, November 29, 2018-Janaury 13, 2019.

Publication History

Judy Glantzman, 1979 to Today, New York: Bettery Cuningham Gallery, 2018.

Provenance

The artist; Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2019.

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