Artwork copyright William Wegman. Photo courtesy of the University of Washington.

End Around, 1993

William Wegman
(American, born 1943)

Location: University of Washington, Seattle

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

End Around by artist William Wegman features images of the artist's Weimaraner dog named "Bettina" as she "travels from one lighbox to another". He notes that this artwork is about "location, dislocation, arrival, and disarrival." Wegman's images were temporarily installed in two lightboxes at the bus stop outside of UW's Meany Hall.

This artwork was part of a group of rotating installations on the University of Washington campus. The artists were selected in a competitive process to create images for existing lightboxes at bus stops outside of the UW's School of Art and Meany Hall. The images were reproduced as large-scale transparencies to fit the lightboxes. The bus stops featured the artworks for several months.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with University of Washington.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

New York City-based artist William Wegman creates photographic portraits of dogs. He is known for images of his Weimaraners posing in costume. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in 1965. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana in 1967.