Untitled
2009
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
2009
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
This painting shows two faces side by side, blurred into a sea of swirling shapes and colors. The patterns mix warm oranges, pinks, and yellows with cooler blues and greens, making the faces hard to recognize at first. The background is packed with tiny, repeating marks that look like they were carved or stamped. The artist used a tool to cut these shapes into wood, then printed them to create the image. This method makes the colors pop and the lines sharp, even though the faces are abstract. Try looking up woodcut to see how this technique works.