Mark Grotjahn

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear to the extreme corners of the sheet, which is only visible upon close inspection in the top right, top left and bottom left. There is a faint crease in the lower right corner. The sheet is hinged intermittently verso to the matte. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Vividly striking and optically alluring, Mark Grotjahn’s Untitled (Three-Tiered Perspective) forms part of the artist’s seminal series of the same name, which radically explores the properties and effects of serial abstraction. Evolved from conceptual perspectival studies with two or more vanishing points, a technique that playfully subverts the canonised Renaissance understanding of one-point perspective, Untitled (Three-Tiered Perspective) brilliantly expresses Grotjahn's highly analytical painting technique, while simultaneously reverberating with the time-consuming labor of its own creation to spellbinding effect.

"I wanted to find a motif that I could experiment with for a while. I did a group of drawings over a period of six to twelve months. The drawing that I chose was one that resembled the three tier perspective, and that is what I went with." Mark Grotjahn