Ellis Island 46

1988, printed 1989

Madoka Takagi

Associated Names
Madoka Takagi

Artist, American, born Japan, 1956 - 2015

This is a photograph of an empty room. The room has windows on the left and right walls with vertical and horizontal grids. The room is filled with natural light casting grid-patterned shadows on the floor. The ceiling shows signs of wear with peeling paint and industrial-style light fixtures with metal cages. The room has aged walls and a concrete floor. There is a door at the far end of the room, slightly off-center, and small round holes are visible in the walls at eye level. The overall atmosphere of the photograph is stark and desolate, emphasizing the room's abandonment and decay.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum/palladium print on lightweight wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mitchell and Nancy Steir

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.2 x 24.2 cm (7 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 36.8 x 36.4 cm (14 1/2 x 14 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.163.19


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Madoka Takagi, New York; (Solomon Fine Art, Monarch Beach, CA); Mitchell and Nancy Steir, New York; gift to NGA, 2004.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by artist, across bottom in graphite: Ellisa Island #046 1988 PRINT 1989 MADOKA TAKAGI

Wikidata ID

Q64157657

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