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Nick Mauss
American and German, born 1980
2003
A compact, collage-like drawing in which Nick Mauss layers synthetic polymer paint with cut-and-pasted printed paper, carbon-paper transfer marks, and pencil to blend a fragile portrait with exuberant abstract gestures.
You’re struck by an upside‑down, tentative pencil head that seems to be partly swallowed by bright turquoise and cobalt paint blots and splashes, while a pixelated brick motif and a double-line rectangular frame slice and reconfigure the picture plane.
The piece sits at the intersection of drawing, painting, and graphic reproduction—typical of early‑2000s practice—using both hand and mechanical techniques to probe how images are made, shifted, and circulated.
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint, cut-and-pasted printed paper, carbon paper transfer, and pencil on paper
Dimensions
13 1/2 x 11" (34.3 x 27.9 cm)
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Department
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
2351.2005
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