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Allan McCollum, Surrogate Painting [No. 783], Acrylic on wood and museum board. 1978. 6 1/16 x 5 9/16 inches I am working to construct a charade, in which I am surrounded with false pictures: pseudo-artifacts which beckon me into the desire to look at a picture, but which are complete in doing just that, and that alone. My paintings don't serve a proper function—how could they? They're only representations, props, and surrogates: not real pictures at all. If I can engineer this charade the way I want, I think I can transform the seemingly innocent act of looking at art into a slightly nightmarish duplication of itself. —Allan McCollum Artist's statement, 1980. |
Sherrie Levine. Knot Painting Oil on plywood 1986. 20 x 16 inches These things that are not paintings frame themselves framing themselves with only an absence, a not, at the center—which is to say that there is a center, and it is marked and remarked, traced and represented, not wholly absent, a painting after all, knot painting. —Stephen W. Melville, ARTS Magazine, February 1986. NEXT > |