Untitled (Gang drawing)

1983

American, born 1944

Alan Saret's Gang Drawing series are deceptive in their simplicity and disguise the process of their making-the artist used only a fistful of colored pencils and applied marks to the surface of the paper. The effect is one that intensifies the relationship between line and volume, whereby the line takes on a sculptural quality. This seemingly spontaneous application of pencils on paper produces an illusion of space within the one-dimensional surface.

Colored pencil on paper

22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm)

Gift of Anne Livet

86.250

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Smoke and Mirrors", May 10 - November 9, 2008

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