Kate Gilmore (American, born 1975). <em>Blood from a Stone</em>, 2009. (a) Single-channel video, color, sound, 8 minutes 9 seconds; (b) plaster, wood, paint
, (b) ten blocks, each: 12 x 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, (a) Gift of the Council for Feminist Art and gift of Katherine Ordway, by exchange (b) Gift of Robert D. Bielecki, 2010.16a-b. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, DIG_E2009_Reflections_on_the_Electric_Mirror_11_PS2.jpg)

Kate Gilmore (American, born 1975). Blood from a Stone, 2009. (a) Single-channel video, color, sound, 8 minutes 9 seconds; (b) plaster, wood, paint , (b) ten blocks, each: 12 x 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, (a) Gift of the Council for Feminist Art and gift of Katherine Ordway, by exchange (b) Gift of Robert D. Bielecki, 2010.16a-b. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, DIG_E2009_Reflections_on_the_Electric_Mirror_11_PS2.jpg)

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Blood from a Stone

Kate Gilmore

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Kate Gilmore sets up scenarios in which she performs tasks that test her physical endurance, such as breaking out of confining spaces, scaling high walls, or moving heavy objects. These feats are at once potentially dangerous and seemingly meaningless, yet the artist enacts them repeatedly with unwavering determination and focus. Gilmore originally executed and recorded Blood from a Stone in the Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art before the work appeared in the 2009–10 exhibition Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video.

ARTIST Kate Gilmore, American, born 1975

MEDIUM (a) Single-channel video, color, sound, 8 minutes 9 seconds; (b) plaster, wood, paint

DATES 2009

DIMENSIONS (b) ten blocks, each: 12 x 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 2010.16a-b

CREDIT LINE (a) Gift of the Council for Feminist Art and gift of Katherine Ordway, by exchange (b) Gift of Robert D. Bielecki

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Kate Gilmore (American, born 1975). Blood from a Stone, 2009. (a) Single-channel video, color, sound, 8 minutes 9 seconds; (b) plaster, wood, paint , (b) ten blocks, each: 12 x 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, (a) Gift of the Council for Feminist Art and gift of Katherine Ordway, by exchange (b) Gift of Robert D. Bielecki, 2010.16a-b. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, DIG_E2009_Reflections_on_the_Electric_Mirror_11_PS2.jpg)

EDITION Edition: (a) 1/5; 2 Aps

IMAGE DIG_E2009_Reflections_on_the_Electric_Mirror_11_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2009

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