Far from Home

2021

Far from Home, 2021. Ulrike Müller (Austrian, b. 1971), Marina Ancona (American, b. 1971), published by 10 Grand Press (American, est. 1999). Color monotype and chine collé; image and sheet: 74 x 56.9 cm (29 1/8 x 22 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2021.105 This print suggests Austrian-born artist Ulrike Müller’s longstanding interest in evoking the human body through abstraction. The Austrian-born artist began her career as part of the influential art collective LTTR, which used ephemeral media such as performance and zines to explore Queer issues. In layers of patterned forms, Far from Home suggests overlapping limbs, as well as a broader narrative about the knowing and concealing that are part of the LGBTQ experience. Ulrike Müller worked with master printer Marina Ancona, a frequent collaborator on monotypes, to make this work.