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Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
In Light of Certain Things
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Held by the artist.

In Light of Certain Things

Artist/Maker (United States, b. 1954)
Date1997
Mediumdigital print on canvas
DimensionsSight: 48 5/8 x 31 1/8 in. (123.5 x 79.1 cm)
Framed: 51 x 33 1/2 x 1 in. (129.5 x 85.1 x 2.5 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineMFA Purchase Award
Terms
    Object number97.0008
    DescriptionDebbie Rose Myers’ work “is based on recognizable signs, but (they) gain their meaning within a historical context med-iated by current social belief systems.” She utilizes the contemporary technology of the computer to compose her work, but her tale of subjugation and retribution is of Biblical proportion. Cliché images related to gender and role playing - woman as bathing beauty, woman as housewife, woman belittled - describe a social history of feminine domination and dependence. In the artist’s view, gender discrimination has prevailed throughout the ages, breeding nothing but anger and the degeneracy/decay of society, which, in turn, courts the fire and brimstone of retribution.
    On View
    Not on view
    Laisely I
    Joel Philip Myers
    1987
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Bassa people
    20th century
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Artist Unknown
    ca. 1000-1550 CE
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Artist Unknown
    late 2nd to early 3rd century
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Dogon people
    20th century
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Nigeria, Yoruba people
    early 20th century
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Thomas Hart Benton
    1936
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Dogon people
    not dated