Untitled from Found Masks 1975–1978
Kirsten Hawthorne
American, born 1949
1975–78, published 1978
A black-and-white photocopy of found, mask-like objects in which the artist turns discarded materials into suggestive, face-like forms.
You first register the grainy gray shapes against the white ground—the top a symmetric cardboard cutout with square eye-holes and the bottom a frayed, stitched pouch with a coiled spring like a jagged mouth—rendered flat and tactile by the photocopied contrast.
Made during the 1970s, this work exemplifies how artists used photocopying and found objects to challenge traditional notions of authorship and to reveal the poetic, human presence in everyday refuse.
Medium
One from a portfolio of 29 photocopies
Dimensions
irreg composition 10 15/16 x 8 1/8" (27.8 x 20.7 cm)
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Credit
Larry Aldrich Fund
Accession
20.1979.22
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