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

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Title: Signal
Subject: Monochrome painting; Red
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
Rights: Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).
Type: Painting
Identifier: 1993.7
Extent: 182.9 × 121.9 cm (72 × 48 in.)
Provenance: Museum purchase with funds from the Friends of Wrenfield, 1993
Medium: Oil on canvas

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.

Rights & reuse

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

Cite this

Rafael Ortiz-Bell. “Signal.” 1992. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://01hy7jb6pdd1k4jjjn56z4587d.app-platform-1.refbytes.com/items/show/216 (accessed October 27, 2026).

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