Untitled (i love you...)
Jon Pylypchuk
Canadian, born 1973
2003
A small mixed-media drawing-collage in which Jon Pylypchuk stitches together ink, watercolor, cut paper, fabric, synthetic fur, toy eyes, glitter, and glue to form a playful yet slightly disquieting puppet-like figure that reads like an improvised confession.
What hits you first is the tactile contrast—the fuzzy black head and trailing strip set beside a glittering magenta mask and a polka-dotted fabric 'neck'—while tiny handwritten words curl out of the composition, giving the object an intimate, oddly vulnerable voice.
The work maps a turn in contemporary practice that elevates everyday craft materials and found fragments into expressive assemblages, linking DIY punk sensibilities to a renewed interest in narrative, character, and emotional rawness in late 20th–early 21st-century art.
Medium
Ink, watercolor, cut-and-pasted paper, fabric, synthetic fur, toy eyes, glitter, and glue on cut-and-pasted paper
Dimensions
10 x 8 1/4" (25.4 x 21 cm)
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Department
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
2842.2005
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