Details

Title

Bus Ride

Artist/Maker

Kay Hassan (South African, born 1956)

Date

1996

Medium

Paper

Dimensions

Triptych: (left panel): 52 x 42 inches Image/Plate (middle panel): 63 x 82 inches Image/Plate (right panel): 68 x 43 inches

Credit

Purchase with High Museum of Art Enhancement Fund and funds from Patricia Blanchet and Ed Bradley, Eugene and Norrene Duffy, and Pamola Powell and Guy Lescault

Accession #

2005.197

On View

On View - Wieland Pavilion, Skyway, Gallery 415

Kay Hassan, a former Rorke’s Drift student like many artists in this gallery, creates paper constructions from discarded cardboard and billboard posters. "Bus Ride" considers the ongoing social and spatial legacy of apartheid, during which non-White South Africans commuted long distances from townships and designated “Native homelands” to low-paying jobs in White urban areas.