Crocker Art Museum Acquires Gazing Ball with Lemon and Fly

The Crocker Art Museum recently acquired Gazing Ball with Lemon and Fly, a c print mounted on aluminum with gloss laminate from the series, Alone and the Wilderness. Combining portraiture, still life and landscape, the series investigates our connection and disconnection with nature and our conception of wilderness. The vessel stand as our surrogates, reflecting and refracting the environment, alluding to the nature of perception.  

Alone and the Wilderness explores the threshold of landscape, simultaneously situating compositions inside and outside. Working en plein air directly informed the qualities of the still life composition, as light, weather, animals and insects collaborated in the final arrangement. Natural disintegration is counteracted with an enduring photographic lens. 

The Crocker Art Museum features the world’s foremost display of California art and is renowned for its holdings of European master drawings and international ceramics. The museum also holds permanent collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art, ceramics, and photography.