Christiane Baumgartner’s ‘Atlantis,’ 2022

Highlights from the Grinnell College Museum of Art Collection

Highlights from the Grinnell College Museum of Art Collection, with expert commentary from Associate Director Dan Strong.

Creative & Performing Arts

● Feb 4, 2025 ●

Daniel Strong

The snowy exterior of the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts

by Grinnell College Museum of Art Associate Director Dan Strong

Christiane Baumgartner

German, b. 1967

Atlantis, 2022

Two-color woodcut on Misumi-Japanese paper

Marie-Louise and Samuel R. Rosenthal Fund (2022.083)

Christine Baumgartner

Atlantis, 2022

This is the most recent of four woodcuts by Baumgartner to enter the museum’s collection, and the first to use color. She exploits the nature of woodcut printing to explore the visual effects of film and video stills, and the manner in which pressing the “pause” button causes disruptive interference, compromising notions of ”truth“ in photographic media.

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