RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER: Interactions
Past exhibition
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Overview
Nolan/Eckman Gallery is pleased to announce Interactions, an exhibition of recent works on paper by Richard Artschwager (b. 1923).
On view will be recent charcoal and pastel on paper drawings depicting road landscapes, interiors, and found media images, marked by Artschwager's famously stoical indifference. Artschwager has long been fond of gleaning imagery from newspapers for his paintings; the coarseness of the newsprint and the Benday dots that compose the printed photograph leave the image rough, slightly blurred. Artschwager utilizes the tactility and texture of paper as a distancing measure, as a way to remind you that what you are looking at is a construction—that it is art. In presenting his subjects in severe and odd perspectives and shifting between sharp and phantom-like focus, he defamiliarizes the familiar in order to present it anew to the viewer. Sometimes our gaze dominates the drawn landscapes with views presented from above; other times our view is relegated to that of an ant. Though he is known throughout the art world as a painter, sculptor, and photographer, Artschwager's irrepressible knack for evoking the uncanny during the act of perception is present throughout these drawings.
Richard Artschwager first exhibited in New York in 1959, and was represented by Leo Castelli Gallery for many years. His work has been seen in galleries and museums around the world and continues to be highly regarded. In 2003, retrospectives were organized by the Guggenheim Deutsche Bank, Berlin; the Winterthur Museum, Switzerland; and the Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami. -
Installation Views
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Richard ArtschwagerRoad With Median, 2005charcoal on paper25 x 32 1/2 inches
63.5 x 82.6 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerTwo Figures at Table, 2005charcoal on paper25 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches
64.8 x 74.9 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerUntitled (Road with bouncing car), 2005charcoal on paper25 x 37 3/4 inches
63.5 x 95.9 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerStepping Out, 2005charcoal on paper25 x 37 3/4 inches
63.5 x 95.9 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerUntitled (Overpass aerial view), 2005charcoal on paper37 3/4 x 25 inches
95.9 x 63.5 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerUntitled (Rolling road with median horizontal), 2005charcoal on paper25 x 37 3/4 inches
63.5 x 95.9 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerUntitled (Bucket on floor), 2005charcoal on paper25 x 37 3/4 inches
63.5 x 95.9 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerUntitled (Rolling road with median vertical), 2005charcoal on paper37 3/4 x 25 inches
95.9 x 63.5 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerHighway (Double), 2005charcoal on papertwo sheets
25 x 37 3/4 inches each
63.5 x 95.9 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerSome Guys, 2006charcoal on paper25 x 38 inches
63.5 x 96.5 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerUntitled (Ant's view of road), 2006charcoal on paper34 x 25 inches
86.4 x 63.5 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerTrapezoid, 2006charcoal on paper25 x 38 inches
63.5 x 96.5 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerUntitled (Brown velvet road), 2006pastel on flocked paper39 1/2 x 27 1/2 in
100.3 x 69.9 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerUntitled (Red bookcase), 2006pastel on flocked paper27 1/4 x 39 in (69.2 x 99.1 cm)
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Richard ArtschwagerCrazy Road, 2006charcoal on paper25 x 37 3/4 inches
63.5 x 95.9 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerUntitled (Blue Concentric), 2006charcoal and pastel on paper38 x 25 inches
96.5 x 63.5 cm -
Richard ArtschwagerUntitled (Overpass aerial view), 2005charcoal on paper37 3/4 x 25 in
95.9 x 63.5 cm
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