Double Ramen
Ethridge is known for his synthetic approach to photography, bridging the boundaries between the artistic and the commercial, the highbrow and the mundane, and playfully questioning the medium’s traditions and conventions. This photographic diptych takes a mundane subject— that dirt-cheap staple of college kids imported from Asia— and blows it up to monumental proportions. The flattening effect of the lens heightens the subject’s surface allure, and the doubling effect is a sly nod to the homogeneity of mass production and consumption.
Artwork Details
- Title: Double Ramen
- Artist: Roe Ethridge (American, born 1969)
- Date: 2013
- Medium: Chromogenic prints
- Dimensions: 40 in. × 53 5/16 in. (101.6 × 135.4 cm)
Frame: 45 5/8 × 56 1/4 × 2 in. (115.9 × 142.9 × 5.1 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2014
- Object Number: 2014.227
- Rights and Reproduction: © Roe Ethridge 2013
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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