Untitled (The Middle Pillar) by Carol Bove (2007)

Carol Bove b. 1971, New York City Untitled (The Middle Pillar) (2007) Peacock feathers The Guggenheim, NYC Here, thousands of peacock feathers are layered into a dazzling, floor-bound field of color and repeated form. Long associated with the act of display, the peacock feather has appeared across many artistic traditions that shape Bove's thinking-from late nineteenth-century Symbolism to 1920s…