The Dream
Wyatt Kahn
American, born 1983
2021
A large-scale lithograph in which Wyatt Kahn uses repeated, brushy looped marks to make tangible the motor energy of drawing and to conjure a knotlike, dreamlike space between figure and ground.
Youʼre first struck by a heavy, black mass of coiled, scribbled rings layered over a smudged gray square—their rough texture, overlapping rhythms, and scraped edges create a sense of depth and restless, meditative motion.
By translating intense, repetitive gestural marks into a monumental print, Kahn bridges drawing and printmaking and continues a modernist interest in process, repetition, and the bodily trace of the hand.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
plate (irreg.): 41 5/16 × 37 3/8" (105 × 95 cm); sheet: 48 × 40 3/8" (121.9 × 102.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Accession
374.2022
Palette
Exhibitions
