Sea Grotto (North)

Artist Ron Jude(American, born 1965)American, born 1965

CultureAmerican

Titles

Sea Grotto (North)
from the series 12 Hz

Date2017, printed 2019

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage (at open): 55 1/2 × 40 1/2 in. (141 × 102.9 cm)
Sheet (at open): 55 1/2 × 40 1/2 in. (141 × 102.9 cm)
Frame (at open): 56 1/4 × 42 1/2 × 2 in. (142.9 × 108 × 5.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by W. Burt Nelson in memory of Richard Francis Nelson

Object number2020.166

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Description

Ron Jude is preoccupied with the imperceptible forces of nature and the incomprehensibility of geological spans of time: plate tectonics, ocean tides, cycles of growth and death in the forest. Photographed on the Oregon coast, Sea Grotto (North) captures with incredible detail the split second in which a wave hits the rocky coastline. Individual drops of water hanging from the rocks and small bubbles that make up the foamed surface of the ocean are all visible, but the viewer is aware that the full power and small shifts can only be suggested, not captured within the frame.

ProvenanceThe artist; [Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Printed in black on applied label, frame verso: Ron Jude // Sea Grotto (North). // From 12 Hz // 2017 // Edition A/P 1 // 56 x 42-inches // Archival pigment print on fiber paper mounted to Dibond // Ron Jude [signed in black ink]

Printed in black on applied label, frame verso, lower right: OTA HOUSE // [address and contact] // [weight] // This frame is glazed with // MUSEUM OPTIUM ACRYLIC // [cleaning instructions]

Signed in black ink on applied label, frame verso: Ron Jude

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