"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
—Allora & Calzadilla
"Heater" (1964)
"Heater," 1964
Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Purchased with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee
Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York
Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches
Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Purchased with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee
Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York
"I think I remembered kind of feeling the joy of being able to paint anything. At that time I painted a lot of different objects. Things that turned on, like my hotplate and the lamps. Things that I had...pretty much everything I had in the studio."
- Vija Celmins
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