Clock Weight
By Rose Salane
22 x 30 inch 12 Color Screenprint
on 290gsm Coventry Rag
Edition of 12
Published by Du-Good Press, 2023
Rose Salane
Clock Weight draws on the museum protocol of ‘deaccessions’ which is the permanent removal of an object or artwork from a museum’s collection. Salane was able to view records of what objects had been deaccessioned from Yale University’s Art Gallery archives since its founding in 1832. This print documents a remaining part from an 18th century clock that was released from the collection in 1951. The pre Industrial Revolution era clocks required rewinding after a day and relied on the weight as an engine to balance its tempo.
Underneath the image of the weight, Salane shares a text selection of other art objects throughout the years that were deaccessioned from the university’s art gallery. The significance of what remains and what departs from a museum’s collection has resonance temporally, culturally and reflects the values of an institution. Clock Weight is the first print in Salane’s “Deaccessions” series.
Made in collaboration with the Print Catalyst visiting artist program at Yale School of Art.
While this second iteration is screenprinted and hand pulled by Leslie Diuguid at Du-Good Press in Brooklyn, NY—the first version was made in the medium of lithography and produced in collaboration with Master Printer Doug Volle of Two Palms in April 2023.
Rose Salane is an artist living and working in New York, NY. Solo presentations of Salane’s work have been held at Carlos/Ishikawa, UK (2023); Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2021); and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (2019). In 2021, her work was featured in the New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, NY, and in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. In 2022, she was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Salane completed her MA in Urban Planning at Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CUNY, and her BFA at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.