10 chazen museum of art collections
Zebras Join the Permanent
Collection
“ I had this idea of the light and shadow of a forest interacting with the zebras ' stripes . If I had known how much work the image was going to be , I never would have done it .”
— Simen Johan , photograph magazine , July 2016
Affectionately called “ the zebras ” by visitors who are drawn to the 13-foot wide photograph now on view in the Mead Witter Lobby , Untitled # 182 , from the series Until the Kingdom Comes by Simen Johan joins the Chazen ’ s growing collection of contemporary digital photography .
Like photographer Markus Brunetti whose FACADES exhibition was on view at the Chazen September 2 – December 31 , 2016 , Johan works with hundreds of photographs to