About This Item

  • TitleReality check.
  • Call NumberVETS_0061
  • Cite AsNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryRelief print depicting a face. Artwork made for project: Inked identity, 2011: veteran-designed tattoos done in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art Access Program, and exhibited at MoMA in November, 2011. Exhibition label: Juan C. Cifuentes, Reality check. “This is the face of surprise and a new finding, a face of suffering that has seen it all until it sees something new, shocking. I cannot tell if it is good or bad, but it is surprising.”
  • Date2011
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPG, black & white
  • Genrerelief prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by creator.
  • CreatorCifuentes, Juan C.
  • SubjectVeterans--United States
  • CollectionVeterans Creative Arts Program collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • Copyright OwnerNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program