{"data":{"id":"828","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":828,"topgoose_id":1305,"tms_id":828,"display_name":"Sylvia Plimack Mangold","sort_name":"Mangold Sylvia Plimack","display_date":"1938–","begin_date":"1938","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough its subject appears ordinary-a section of floor and wall in a room-Sylvia Plimack Mangold's\u003ca href=\"/collection/works/792\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;Floor with Horizontal Mirror\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e effects a canny play on the conventions of representation and the mechanics of vision. In depicting not only an expanse of wood flooring but its reflection in a mirror propped up against the wall, the artist stages a perspectival conundrum: the mirror at once creates a sense of depth and directs our attention to the surface of the picture plane. \"I want the viewer to ... enter the painting, and then come back to the surface,\" she has stated. The mirror also makes a literal pun on the idea of a painting being a window onto the world, and asserts Mangold's photorealistic abilities: every color shift and striation in the wood flooring's strips has been faithfully recorded, appearing just as they do in the mirror.\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter studying at the Cooper Union and Yale University, Mangold first experimented with Cubist-like modes\nof painting, arriving at her signature theme\nin the mid-1960s: the floors, corners,\nbaseboards, wainscoting, and walls of her\nNew York apartment and studio. Often,\nthese works incorporated trompe l’oeil\nimages of masking tape and rulers, which\nself-reflexively referenced both her painting\nprocess and the confines of the work.\nIn 1971 Mangold and her family moved to\nupstate New York, and most of the paintings,\ndrawings, and prints she has produced\nsince that time are landscapes featuring\nthe trees around their home.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":false,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500006404","wikidata_id":"Q7660986","created_at":"2017-08-30T16:17:34.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-11T07:01:55.139-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/828/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/828/exhibitions"}}}}