MARISA MERZ | Untitled

Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels 

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat intermittently along the edges. There is creasing seen along the top edge and lower left corner of the sheet. There is faint stable cracking within the thickly applied wax passages with associated flaking and minor losses, possibly inherent. There are smudges in the margins, again likely inherent. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"Merz’s most striking pictorial technique involves layering combinations of graphite, wax, pastel, and paint that is brushed or sprayed, or sometimes both, onto paper, metal, board, or unstretched canvas. Colors shared by different mediums make it hard, at times, to know which material you see...Merz’s mixed methods draw you into the process of the work, as if your gaze were helping to generate it. First impressions of insouciantly woozy execution disintegrate in registrations of texture and touch. The pictures are like factories turning out dreams." Peter Schjeldahl, "Marisa Merz’s Factory of Dreams," The New Yorker, 22 January 2017



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