• Penelope Umbrico
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• Work :
  • Learning from eBay
  • 53.6 Million Metric Tons of E-Waste 2020
  • Clouds/Screen
  • Sun/Screen (coloring book)
  • Monument
  • Sun/Screen/Scan
  • Screen to Screen
  • Everyone’s Photos Any License
  • Grand Central Four photographs
  • RANGE
  • 136 Mini Film Cameras
  • Signals Still
  • Broken Sets / Bad Display
  • Screen Sun
  • Out of Order - Used Office
  • Sideways Tvs
  • Universal Remotes
  • Campus Surplus
  • Zenith Replacement Parts
  • Pirouette for CRT
  • Eclipses
  • 229 One Hour Photo Labs
  • Sunset Portraits
  • Suns from Sunsets from Flickr
  • TVs from Craigslist
  • Alex
  • Milk Splash
  • Sun Burn (Screen Saver)
  • Beautiful Armoire
  • Views From The Internet
  • Doors (From Catalogs)
  • Backwards Facing Cats (eBay)
  • Ceramic Cats (eBay)
  • Many Leonards Not Natman
  • Cabinet 1526-2013
  • Touching Hardware
  • Embarrassing Books
  • Credits (A Bibliography)
  • Untitled (Crowds and Graveyards)
  • Arrhythmia (All the Dishes / eBay)
  • Mirrors (From Catalogs)
  • Bed/Pillows/Paint
  • Office / Still Lives
  • All Catalogues (A-Z)
  • Honeymoon Suites
  • Statistical Self-portraits
  • Dogs on Pillows
  • Jasper Walking, 1997-2010
  • Pictures of and by my grandmother
  • Your Choice
  • From Catalogs

• Books
  • Everyone’s Photos Any License
  • Out Of Order: Bad Display III
  • Solar Eclipses from NYPL
  • Out of Order: Bad Display
  • Out of Order: Used Office
  • RANGE
  • Moving Mountains (1850-2012)
  • Photographs
  • Desk Trajectories (As Is)
  • Many Leonards Not Natman

• Older Work
  • Untitled Maps
  • Viral Fields / Seasonal
  • Untitled, Skin Transfers
  • Object Throb / Focus Struggle
  • Ends of Things

Mirrors (from Catalogs and Home Décor Websites), 2001 - 2011

Mirrors were taken directly from mail-order catalogs and brochures displaying idealized room suites. I scanned the mirrors, isolating them from their surroundings, and digitally skewed them back into a flat perspective, to bring them into the space of the viewer. I have enlarged the images to the dimensions of the actual size of the mirror being sold in the catalog. The Mirrors are then mounted face forward to non-glare laser-cut plexi-glass and hung on the wall as a real mirror would. While the mirrors in these catalogs serve to locate the viewer within the space by reflecting what would be behind them, all the seductive trappings arranged in mirror's reflection become surrogates for the missing reflection of the viewer - the viewer witnesses their own disappearance and replacement by sellable objects.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
  

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Out of Place: Mirrors and Doors from Catalogs, publication produced in the occasion of the show Out of Place at Julie Saul Gallery, NY, 2002
Click on the image below to download Out of Place's pdf.
 
 
 
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