"I call it 'communing with the painting,'" she tells me. She spent a month inspecting it, reading everything she could find about the piece. Her job involves both deciding what should happen to the painting and carrying out the physical work... With help from a Bank of America Art Conservation Project grant, she's giving a behind-the-scenes look at the process through a video series and installation.
"When Ameringer started at the museum a few years ago, its prized Monet caught her attention, and not in a good way. The 'rather thick varnish coat,' she says, gives it a wet shine that oversaturates its colors - far past Monet's delicate pastel tones."
"The painting, stripped of its frame, sits on a complicated easel: a patient in this sterile conservator's lab."
"Though the painting has scarcely come off view in the past 65 years, construction closures as the museum expands its campus gave Ameringer her window. The videos keep the painting on view, Ameringer says, but this peek into her lab also provides an insight into conservation work."
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