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Untitled, 2010, pencil
Stephen Grossman
There are first maps that come to an edge of exploration and leave only a step into the blank. But imagine a chart which, as it is drawn, makes the world it depicts appear. This is the implicit effect of these various recent works on paper.
Courtesy of the artist
Untitled, 2010, ink, watercolor
These drawings multiply the already several definitions of landscape. They might be called “topographicals,” plots of time as well as space which trace forgotten pilgrimage routes or the fortress walls of buried cities. In each of them there is a lesson of how a line can be made complete in itself.
The patterns are a history of remains, not so different from the Grossman’s earlier portraits of family memories, each with its faint imprint of forgiveness.
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