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Exhibition of work by María Elena González, "Internal DupliCity" exhibition (Knoedler & Co., New York City, 2006). The image illustrates a key body of work by María Elena González in the mid-2000s, when she produced sculpture and installations that took a less autobiographical and more theatrical direction. These generally spare works often took an architectural form, as in the minimal, blood-red works in this exhibition image. Based on memories of Renaissance villas, agrarian sheds, burial vaults and churches seen in Rome, and set atop white pedestals and encased in cubes of frosted plexiglass partly obscuring them, they suggest a phantom city in mist, Catholic reliquaries, and remembered or imagined homes. This body of work was publicly exhibited and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist María Elena González. Copyright held by the artist.

María Elena González

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career body of work by María Elena González: her mid-2000s body of sculpture, which departed from early personal work with objects and installations that took a less overtly autobiographical and more theatrical direction. These generally spare works using diverse materials often took an architectural form, sometimes using repeated shapes or motifs, which conjured associations with Catholic reliquaries or dollhouses and conveyed characteristic themes of loss, unease, and remembered or imagined homes. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key, foundational body of work, which brought González's ongoing recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. González's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by María Elena González, and the work is no longer viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.