Cornelia Parker, Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson), (detail) 1999. Charcoal, wire, pins, and nails, 144 × 60 × 72 inches (365.8 × 152.4 × 182.9 cm), Gift of Barbara Lee, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. © 2016 Cornelia Parker
Ragnar Kjartansson, The Man, 2010. Single-channel video (color, sound; 49:00 minutes). Gift of Graham and Ann Gund to The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Gund Gallery at Kenyon College. Courtesy the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavík. © Ragnar Kjartansson
Photo by Natasha Moustache
Ellen Gallagher, DeLuxe, 2004-2005. Photogravure, etching, aquatint, and drypoints with lithography, screenprint, embossing, tattoo-machine engraving, laser cutting, and chine collé; and additions of Plasticine, paper collage, enamel, varnish, gouache, pencil, oil, polymer, watercolor, pomade, velvet, glitter, crystals, foil paper, gold leaf, toy eyeballs, and imitation ice cubes, Sixty parts, each: 13 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (34.3 × 26.7 cm), Overall: 84 × 176 in. (213.4 × 447 cm). Gift of Barbara Lee, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth and Gagosian. © Ellen Gallagher and Two Palms Press
Françoise Grossen, Inchworm, 1971. Industrial cotton piping cord, approximately 2 x 20 x 13 feet (61 x 609.8 x 396.3 cm). Gift of the artist, in honor of Jenelle Porter. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. © 2016 Françoise Grossen
Doris Salcedo, Atrabiliarios, 1996. Drywall, shoes, cow bladder, and surgical thread, 47 x 83 1/16 inches (119.4 x 211 cm). Gift of Barbara Lee, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. Courtesy Alexander and Bonin. © Doris Salcedo
Anne Collier, Open Book #3 (Island Wilderness), from the series Open Book, 2010. Chromogenic color print, 47 1/4 × 62 1/8 inches (120 × 157.8 cm). Gift of Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté. Courtesy the artist and Anton Kern Gallery. © Anne Collier
Installation view, First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2016-17. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography.
Mona Hatoum, Pin Rug, 1998-99, Stainless steel pins, canvas, and glue, 1 3/8 x 47 13/16 x 73 5/8 inches (3.5 x 121.5 x 187 cm). Gift of Barbara Lee, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. Courtesy Alexander and Bonin and White Cube. Photo by Orcutt & Van Der Putten. © Mona Hatoum
Paul Chan, 1st Light, 2005. Projected digital animation (color, silent; 14:00 minutes). Gift of Kimberly and James Pallotta. Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali. Photo by Jean Vong. © Paul Chan
Louise Bourgeois, Cell (Hands and Mirror), 1995. Marble, metal, and mirror, 63 x 48 x 45 inches (160 x 121.9 x 114.3 cm). Gift of Barbara Lee, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. Photo by Charles Mayer Photography. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
This Saturday at Community Day we asked you to show some love for your favorite work in First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA with Hearts for Art, and the results are in! Here are your top 11 favorite works (there was a tie for 10th!), with Cornelia Parker’s Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson) taking the lead by almost 100 votes!
The best part? You can come and visit them for a few more weeks! First Light will be on view through Jan 16, 2017.
(Also snagging some sneaky votes were the view from the John Hancock Founders Gallery, Gillian Wearing’s Rock ‘n’ Roll 70, and several works on view in The Artist’s Museum.)
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