{"data":{"id":"11303","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":11303,"topgoose_id":1123,"tms_id":11303,"display_name":"Liliana Porter","sort_name":"Porter Liliana","display_date":"1941–","begin_date":"1941","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eTrained in Mexico City and Buenos Aires, Liliana Porter was drawn to the experimental art scene in New York in the mid-1960s. At a time when Conceptual artists were questioning the definition of art and reacting against modernism’s emphasis on medium specificity, Porter, together with two other Latin American expatriate artists, \u003ca href=\"/artists/220\"\u003eLuis Camnitzer\u003c/a\u003e and José Guillermo Castillo, determined to bring these concerns to printmaking. Their New York Graphic Workshop, founded in 1964, radically reconsidered the print medium, shifting its focus from the age-old craft of printing individual images to championing a broader view in which editioned works became the essence of printmaking. In addition to exploring the relationship between the individual work and the multiple, the Workshop produced unconventional manifestations of the medium, such as inking the sides of stacks of paper and using them to print on paper-based installations.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Porter’s \u003ca href=\"/collection/works/39004\"\u003eA\u003cem\u003erruga y sombra derramada\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e,\na partially excised section of paper that\nhas been wrinkled and then mostly flattened\nfalls over a screenprinted swath of black\nink. Here, the relationship between the\nbasic materials of printmaking—paper and\nink—is inverted: the ink is printed on one\npiece of paper and then covered by another.\nRather than forming the image, the black\nink masquerades as the upper layer’s\nshadow. Porter expressed a conceptual\ninterest in “the representation of something\nover the thing itself, shadow on shadow,\nwrinkle on wrinkle.” The use of screenprinting\nhere raises questions about the status\nof images in printmaking and foregrounds\nthe complex exploration of perceptual\neffects central to Porter’s practice, which\nalso extended to photography, video,\nand installation.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":false,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500116707","wikidata_id":"Q528501","created_at":"2017-08-30T16:05:39.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-11T07:00:39.459-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/11303/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/11303/exhibitions"}}}}