Big Seed Drawing
Mark Grotjahn
American, born 1968
2003
A drawing in ballpoint pen, colored pencil, and linseed oil on marked paper in which Mark Grotjahn arranges hundreds of seed‑like marks to generate rhythm, depth, and shimmering color from humble materials.
Visually it reads like a cascading network of tiny, almond‑shaped motifs—each striped with jewel‑toned bands and edged with subtle shadow—so the sheet seems to vibrate and breathe against coffee‑stained paper.
The work fuses obsessive seriality and painterly color to expand contemporary drawing, turning Minimalist repetition into a hand‑made, organic optical field that bridges drawing and painting.
Medium
Ballpoint pen, color pencil and linseed oil on marked paper
Dimensions
29 x 23" (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
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Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
1788.2005
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