"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."
"Emetic Fields" (1989)
"Emetic Fields," 1989
Oil on canvas, 8 panels, 102 x 204 1/2 inches overall
Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Photo by Jennifer Kotter
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Oil on canvas, 8 panels, 102 x 204 1/2 inches overall
Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Photo by Jennifer Kotter
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
"I love Queen Elizabeth...Here’s this woman called 'Queen'- she gives that little wave- and she has no power whatsoever. In 'Emetic Fields,' there is the figure of Queen Elizabeth and there is the figure of a surgeon. And that all goes back to my own sense of how power works. Queen Elizabeth, to me, is the epitome of how power works. Not too well."
- Ida Applebroog
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