#4
James Siena
American, born 1957
(1990)
An ink-and-pencil drawing on paper in which Siena applies a self-devised rule to warp a checkerboard into a dense field of interlocking, amoeba-like cells.
What grabs you is the rhythmic, undulating checkerboard of black and white shapes—the black areas packed with tight, hand-drawn strokes that give them a carved, topographic feeling.
The piece exemplifies late‑20th‑century, rule-based drawing that treats serial, conceptual systems as a source of vivid, handmade visual complexity.
Medium
Ink and pencil on paper
Dimensions
9 x 7" (22.9 x 17.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Accession
3094.2005
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