Untitled
Kim Jones
American, born 1944
1970/1980/1999
A large, mixed-media drawing (synthetic polymer paint, ink, and felt‑tip pen on paper) in which Kim Jones layers knotted, fleshy biomorphic forms and a border of crowded, sketchy faces to create a claustrophobic, dreamlike interior world.
What strikes you first is the tumult of color and line — a central tangle of purple, red, and black organic shapes that read like intestines or draped fabric, pierced by pale diagonal scratches and surrounded by a loose, almost comic rim of hovering, watchful heads and cloudlike marks.
Jones’s hybrid of painterly color, obsessive linework, and grotesque figuration blurred the boundaries between drawing, painting, anatomy, and narrative, helping to expand late‑20th‑century approaches to figurative and psychological imagery.
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint, ink, and felt-tip pen on paper
Dimensions
28 1/2 x 34 1/2" (72.4 x 87.6 cm)
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Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
1999.2005
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