#3 (Primary Title)
Botanical and Organic Series (Series Title)
Daryl Trivieri, American, born 1957 (Artist)
Fifty Works for Fifty States: In 2008, in a unique partnership with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Vogels distributed twenty-five hundred works across the country, giving fifty works to one art museum in each of the fifty states. This exhibition, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, showcases the fifty works VMFA received as part of that initiative, which bears the same title. As a diverse and rich body of work, the Vogels' generous giftattests to their passion and commitment to sharing contemporary art with the public.
Daryl Trivieri After moving to New York City in the late 1970s, Trivieri primarily supported himself as a science-fiction illustrator, while simultaneously maintaining his art career. His air-brushed paintings, such as The Chipmunk and The Hedgehog, often reference the medium of photography with their subdued gray-scale palette and precise details. Others directly quote a specific photograph, as is the casewith Paul Klee and his Sister (Portrait of the Young Artist as a Hedgehog). Like the genre of science fiction, he produces fantastical scenes by introducing strange elements (such as the head of a hedgehog) to seemingly factual settings. His Botanical and Organic series of drawings showcases his incredible skill as a draftsman, an integral ingredient in his ability to make the bizarre seem believable.
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