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Photography by Edward C. Robison III

Programmes Piratès

Awash with brushy blue marks hovering over a ground dotted with green foliage, Petra Cortright’s abstract work holds on loosely to the familiar elements of a landscape: land, horizon, and sky. Cortright develops her paintings by copying from the internet, erasing, blending, mixing, and layering until the source material disappears completely, revealing a landscape of her own design; existing exclusively in the digital realm—a space of limitless possibility —until finally becoming fixed in real space once printed onto aluminum.

ArtistPetra Cortright, born 1986
Date2013
MediumDigital painting on aluminum
Dimensions48 x 64 in. (121.9 x 162.6 cm)
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.26
ClassificationPainting
Provenance(Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA); Private Collection; (Sotheby’s, New York, NY), November 12, 2014, lot 410; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2014
On ViewNo
Programmes Piratès48 × 64 in.Standard/Movie Poster40 × 27 in.

This artwork's face covers about 2.8× the area of a standard movie poster.Drawn to the same scale.