Ball Toss, Coney Island, Brooklyn Artist: Lisa Kereszi (American, born 1973, M.F.A. 2000)

2001

Photography

Not on view

In the tradition of photographers such as Walker Evans, Lisa Kereszi presents the American landscape as a series of signs and symbols. Ball Toss, Coney Island, Brooklyn pictures a mural of a floating hand tossing a ball, with trash scattered below—the remains of a day at the amusement park. Stripped of context and people, the image evokes the excitement and carefree quality of a carnival on a summer day. In much of her work, Kereszi uses her camera to reveal the beauty of discarded and neglected things.

Medium

Chromogenic print

Dimensions

image: 28 3/8 × 35 1/4 in. (72 × 89.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the artist

Accession Number

2004.58.1

Geography

Depicted New York, New York, United States

Culture

American

Period

21st century

Classification

Photographs

Disclaimer

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Bibliography
  • Lisa Hodermarsky et al., On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2021), 264–65, no. 61, fig. 2
Object copyright
Copyright Lisa Kereszi
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

chromogenic color prints

Subject

Women artists

Edition

A/P #1

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