Garden of the Gods South, Winter

2009, printed 2010

Scott Hocking American, born 1975

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About the Artwork

Scott Hocking creates site-specific works as well as photographs of his installations made in neighborhoods, historical sites, and factories throughout Detroit. He has witnessed the decline of the city and its infrastructure but sees its transformation as a more universal phenomenon in keeping with the cycle of time and the course of civilizations past and present. This photograph shows the abandoned and self-demolishing Packard Plant, a manufacturing site for the Packard Motor Car from 1907 to 1954. Since closing, the complex has become a mecca for graffiti artists, scrappers. and illegal dumping. During visits to the site, Hocking discovered discarded television consoles that he transported to the partially collapsed roof of the complex. Using the columns as pedestals for the consoles, he created a modern-day temple of gods. hence his title Garden of the Gods, taken from the ancient classical Greek Pantheon of the same name. From Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 89 (2015)

Title Garden of the Gods South, Winter

Artwork Date 2009, printed 2010

Artist Scott Hocking

Life Dates born 1975

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pigment ink jet print on paper

Dimensions Overall: 33 × 49 1/2 inches (83.8 × 125.7 cm) Framed: 37 5/8 inches × 55 1/2 inches × 2 inches (95.6 × 141 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of the artist, Scott Hocking and Susanne Hilberry Gallery

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2010.63

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Signed Signed in pencil, on verso, lower right: [Artist's Signature]

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(Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan, USA)

2010-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Barr, Nancy, John Gallagher, and Carlo McCormick. Detroit Revealed: Photographs 2000-2010. Exh. cat., the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2011, p. 54.

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Scott Hocking, Garden of the Gods South, Winter, 2009, printed 2010, pigment ink jet print on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the artist, Scott Hocking and Susanne Hilberry Gallery, 2010.63.