I've just been lucky enough to spend 4 days in San Francisco over the Thanksgiving holiday. I managed to escape the madness of the city for a couple of hours & wander around MOMA which had an interesting exhibition of the drawings of sculptor Richard Serra...
There is a beauty in the simplicity of graphite on paper & strength in repetition...
The visual power of repeated forms is something I've been investigating in my own work as I struggle to create large art pieces. I realise that often this means my work suffers in exhibitions when hung alongside larger works so I'm exploring the idea of repetition & have a few ideas I want to play with.
I was also excited to see a piece by Agnes Martin, I've been looking at her work alot lately, seduced by the apparent simplicity of her line. The work has wonderful texture & again the quality of mark making is beautiful.
Agnes Martin was quite a philospher too & I have this quote on my studio wall to keep me on my own path -
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