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Object Label
Ed Clark employed a common push broom to manipulate globs of acrylic paint into broad and expressive strokes of color. Through his use of a cleaning tool that references labor and physicality, Clark, like many other postwar Black artists, transformed the possibilities of gestural abstraction. The resulting gradient bands of pigment reveal the movement of the bristles across the paint to create mesmerizing, tactile effects as the colors drip and spill into one another.
Caption
Ed Clark (American, 1926–2019). Untitled, 1978–1980. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 66 × 77 in. (167.6 × 195.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by The LIFEWTR Fund at Frieze New York 2018, 2018.13. © Ed Clark. (Photo: Gunter Lepkowski, courtesy of Weiss Berlin and the artist)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Untitled
Date
1978–1980
Medium
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
66 × 77 in. (167.6 × 195.6 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds given by The LIFEWTR Fund at Frieze New York 2018
Accession Number
2018.13
Rights
© Ed Clark
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