"There's more in the painting than you ever could have imagined and it comes to life."
Artist Mary Weatherford reflects on Goya's "Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.
About the Artist
Mary Weatherford, born in 1963, is an American painter who sometimes incorporates neon lighting tubes in her work.
Mary Weatherford (American, born 1963)
Coney Island II, 2012
Synthetic polymer paint on linen with neon lights and transformer; 103 × 82 in. (261.6 × 210.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, Fund for the Twenty-First Century (61.2013.a-e) © Mary Weatherford. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY
