Untitled
Richard Artschwager
American, 1923–2013
2002
A large charcoal-on-paper drawing in which Richard Artschwager uses repeated, softened half-arch marks arranged in diagonal bands to flatten ordinary motifs into abstract, stamp-like impressions and to test how an object reads as an image.
What strikes you is the steady rhythm of diagonal stripes punctuated by ghostly, crescent-shaped smudges whose blurred edges make them read alternately as shallow hollows, pasted forms, or merely rubbed marks on the paper.
The sheet distills Artschwager’s long-running project of collapsing the boundary between object and representation—turning furniture-like, industrial forms into serial, ambiguous visual events that ask how perception and materiality are constructed.
Medium
Charcoal on paper
Dimensions
25 1/8 x 24" (63.8 x 61 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
1187.2005
Palette
Exhibitions
