Mel Bochner
 
Bochner, Mel
Bochner, Mel
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Description: Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
In the spring of 1970, the Jewish Museum opened Using Walls, the first museum survey to explore the phenomenon of artworks drawn directly on the wall. Included in the exhibition were Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Tuttle, Daniel Buren, and myself. At the opening of the exhibition, I happened to overhear a young painter say, “I still don’t get it, why...
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.185-187
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00315.8
Description: Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
Drawing couples a directness of means with an ease of revision. This gives thought and feeling a direct access to visibility. The tools are simple . . . something to make a mark, an eraser, a sheet of paper. Each material has a particular quality, the choice of which gives a drawing its “color.” Charcoal is dry and burnt, pastel is thick and luminous, Conté crayon is crisp and...
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.183-183
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00315.7
Description: Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
This exhibition brings together drawings by a variety of artists. Some are painters, some make three-dimensional works, some are not easily classified. All of these artists find a use for drawings, even though in much recent art drawing has been held in disrepute. The reason for this disrepute is probably due to the autographic nature of previous drawing, or the questionable notion of drawing as...
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.179-180
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00315.6
Description: Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
In the fall of 1966, the director of the School of Visual Arts gallery in New York invited me, a young art history instructor at the school, to curate a “Christmas” exhibition of drawings by contemporary artists. My original idea was to organize an exhibition on the theme of “working drawings.” Unlike a sketch, with its projected reference to a final visual form, a working...
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.177-178
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00315.5