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23 April 2022
drawing Mel Bochner Portrait of Sol LeWitt, 1966 Pen and ink on graph paper - contemporary drawing, work on paper, contemporary art, art on paper

Mel Bochner

Portrait of Sol LeWitt, 1966
Pen and ink on graph paper
5.25 x 5.5 inches

Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
23 April – 22 August 2022
The Art Institute of Chicago

Mel Bochner
Theory of Painting (Part Three)
, 1969

[from the pressrelease]
Mel Bochner: “For me drawing is the way to see what I’m thinking. All one needs is something to make a mark and a surface to make the mark on. Every medium has its particular quality. Charcoal is dry and burnt, pastel thick and luminous, conté crayon crisp and translucent. Different papers are dense or light, resistant or absorbent, bright or dull. The flexibility of these materials in combination gives a drawing its specificity and contributes to the pure physical pleasure one takes in drawing. But while every medium reveals something, it also hides something else. Changing mediums can reveal what is hidden.”

7 November 2019

Mel Bochner

Blah, Blah, Blah / Need I Say More?, 2019
oil on velvet, in three parts
each: 76.2 x 228.6 cm | overall: 228.6 x 228.6 cm

Mel Bochner. Exasperations
5 November – 21 December 2019
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York

Mel Bochner

HA HA HA, 2017-2019
oil on water based ink and UV screen print ink on paper
182.9 x 131.8 cm

Mel Bochner

Blah, Blah, Blah, 2017-2019
oil on water based ink and UV screen print ink on paper
182.6 x 131.4 cm

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