Ethyl (Altar)

2024

Medium: Mixed-media installation, with jewelry, matchbooks, pins, and textile; plastic, metal, ceramic objects; postcards, photographs, exhibition booklet, handmade feather butterfly, mask with glitter, coins, makeup compact, pearl, shell, and glass containers with additional ephemera; and original artworks by Peter Hujar, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, and Uzi Parnes
Dimensions: Overall: 68 1/2 × 19 1/2 × 12 1/4 in. (174 × 49.5 × 31.1 cm)
Genre: Sculpture
Museum: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, US

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Agosto Machado, Ethyl (Altar), 2024. Mixed-media installation, with jewelry, matchbooks, pins, and textile; plastic, metal, ceramic objects; postcards, photographs, exhibition booklet, handmade feather butterfly, mask with glitter, coins, makeup compact, pearl, shell, and glass containers with additional ephemera; and original artworks by Peter Hujar, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, and Uzi Parnes, overall: 68 1/2 × 19 1/2 × 12 1/4 in. (174 × 49.5 × 31.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee and the Photography Committee 2025.60a-xx