Untitled

Untitled

Jackie Ferrara

1979

graphite

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This drawing shows two pages of architectural sketches. The lines are precise, with lots of triangles, rectangles, and small floor plans. Some shapes are filled with tight, crisscrossed marks, while others stay empty. There’s a mix of orange and blue lines, and the paper has a grid background. The artist used graph paper to keep everything aligned. The sketches look like early ideas for buildings—maybe how spaces connect or how light might hit them. Check out cross-hatching to see how artists build texture with just lines.

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