from The Shapes Project
from The Shapes Project

© 2005, Allan McCollum

from The Shapes Project
from The Shapes Project

Currently not on view

from The Shapes Project,

2005–present

Allan McCollum, born 1944, Los Angeles, CA; active New York, NY
2008-70.1-.144
The 144 digital prints seen here represent a small portion of McCollum’s massive Shapes Project. Using the software program Adobe Illustrator and vector graphics, which employ a series of mathematical commands to generate images, McCollum created a system that could produce nearly thirtyone billion unique abstract shapes. An exercise in numerical incomprehensibility, the project has the potential to result in more individual shapes than the nearly eleven billion people that are estimated to make up the world’s peak population around the year 2100.

Information

Title
from The Shapes Project
Dates

2005–present

Maker
Allan McCollum
Medium
Digital prints with frames
Dimensions
each: 14.9 x 11.1 x 7.6 cm (5 7/8 x 4 3/8 x 3 in.)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, gift of the Advisory Council of the Princeton University Art Museum in honor of Susan M. Taylor, director, 2000-2008
Object Number
2008-70.1-.144
Culture
American
Type
prints, serial art
Techniques
digital imaging
Subject
busts, abstraction

[Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachussetts], sold; to Princeton University Art Museum, 2008.

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