New Drone
Zak Prekop
American, born 1979
2021
An oil on canvas in which Zak Prekop layers cutout-like shapes, looping lines, and painterly interruptions to make a dense, mobile abstraction that gestures toward aerial mapping and the staccato movement of a drone.
You first notice a riot of flat, interlocking blacks, reds, greens, blues and pinks set against white negatives, with thin, frayed outlines and scraped marks that make the whole surface feel both hard-edged and vibrating with motion.
The work updates postwar abstraction by fusing graphic, collage-like shapes with gestural texture—reflecting contemporary painters’ interest in how digital imagery, mapping, and mediated vision reshape how we see and represent space.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 × 54" (172.7 × 137.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Fund for the Twenty-First Century
Accession
343.2021
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