Signal

A large monochrome cadmium red painting with a single thin cream vertical stripe slightly right of center, subtle brush texture in the red, oil on canvas. — Signal

Rafael Ortiz-Bell born 1961

Signal, 1992

Medium: Oil on canvas

Extent: 182.9 × 121.9 cm (72 × 48 in.)

Provenance: Museum purchase with funds from the Friends of Wrenfield, 1993

Identifier: 1993.7

A field of cadmium red interrupted once, off center, by a pale vertical line. Ortiz-Bell painted the line last, in one breath, and would not say what it signals.

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Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka S demo. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

Details

Title: Signal
Description: A field of cadmium red interrupted once, off center, by a pale vertical line. Ortiz-Bell painted the line last, in one breath, and would not say what it signals.
Creator: Rafael Ortiz-Bell
Date: 1992
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Extent: 182.9 × 121.9 cm (72 × 48 in.)
Provenance: Museum purchase with funds from the Friends of Wrenfield, 1993
Identifier: 1993.7
Subject: Monochrome painting; Red
Rights: Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka S demo. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

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Rafael Ortiz-Bell. “Signal.” 1992. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://demo.refbytes.com/s/wrenfield/item/942 (accessed October 16, 2026).

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