Men's Dormitory

Richard Artschwager American

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Artschwager began his career as a furniture-maker in the 1950s and is known for his conceptual sculptures, covered with wood-grained formica and bright acrylic paint, that at first seem to mimic dressers, chairs, or cabinets. By the 1960s he had also begun to make paintings like this one in a gray, monotone acrylic that have black-and-white found photographs as their sources. The support for these paintings is Celotex, an insulating product used in construction, which provides the strange allover texture—like an artificially-produced brushwork.

Men's Dormitory, Richard Artschwager (American, Washington, D.C. 1923–2013 Albany, New York), Acrylic on cardboard

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