John McCracken
Untitled (Wall Piece Study), 1965-1971
Ink on paper
46 x 61 cm.
18 1/8 x 24 inches
18 1/8 x 24 inches
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Perfectly dated, this rare drawing by John McCracken bears witness to the singularity of his art, which seeks to transcend the traditional oppositions between painting and sculpture, drawing and color,...
Perfectly dated, this rare drawing by John McCracken bears witness to the singularity of his art, which seeks to transcend the traditional oppositions between painting and sculpture, drawing and color, volume and surface. Treating the sheet’s space as a real space, McCracken installs one of his famous monoliths there—a form derived from a page in a 1965 sketchbook, published in facsimile in 2008 by Radius Books—on which the artist inscribed one of his famous statements: Color helps to define form, or, as he wrote elsewhere: I conceive of color as the structural material I use to build the forms that interest me…