Sol LeWitt & Liz Deschenes

Sep 7–Oct 28, 2017

The exhibition pairs wall drawings with imageless photographs.

Gallery
Sep 7–Oct 28, 2017
Press release

Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present simultaneous exhibitions of three important wall drawings by Sol LeWitt, with new photographs by Liz Deschenes. Deschenes’s recent work, loosely inspired by LeWitt, will appear with the wall drawings in the gallery’s Geary Street space.

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #786, 1995
black pencil, black crayon, dimensions variable. A 36-inch grid covering the wall. All two-part combinations of arcs from corners and sides. Black pencil grid, black crayon lines.

Gallery II will be installed with Wall Drawing #669, an irregular twelve-pointed star drawn with India ink and filled in solid, first executed in 1991.

Color image of six gridded geometric squares with horizontal lines through each depicting a geometric form on white gallery wall
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #340A, 1993
black crayon, dimensions variable. A six-part drawing. The wall is divided horizontally and vertically into six equal squares, bordered and separated by 6-inch white bands. Within each square a geometric figure, outside of which are black horizontal parallel lines and within which are black vertical parallel lines. All lines are one inch apart, and the horizontal lines do not enter the figures. Drawn in black crayon.

Wall Drawing #340A, first exhibited at the Addison Gallery of American Art in 1993, will be installed in Gallery III. The wall will be divided horizontally and vertically into six equal squares, each containing a geometric figure comprised of vertical, parallel lines.

Liz Deschenes, Untitled (Étienne-Jules Marey #1), 2017
thirteen unique gelatin silver photograms, 85-7/8 x 85-7/8 inches (overall installation) [218 x 218 cm]

Her photograms are a direct record of atmospheric conditions during the process of their production: light, humidity, and the outside temperature, among other factors, determine the surface of the final works.

Learn more about Liz Deschenes’ camera-less photography from SFMOMA & ICA Boston in the video below.

Artists: Liz Deschenes, Sol LeWitt

Works on View

Color image of white walled gallery with geometric like drawing on wall in black ink
Color image of white walled gallery depicting thirteen small geometric shaped photograms in the shape of a circle on wall
Color image of six horizontal photograms on white gallery wall
Color image of black geometric like drawing on white gallery wall
Color image of two pairs of gold photograms on white gallery walls
Color image of two pairs of silver photograms on white gallery wall
Color image of six gridded geometric squares with horizontal lines through each depicting a geometric form on white gallery wall
Color image of six gridded geometric squares with horizontal lines through each depicting a geometric form on white gallery wall

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About the Artists

Sol LeWitt (b.1928, Hartford, CT; d. 2007, New York) is a key figure of 20th century art. His systematic methodology centered on the concept by which a work is to be installed directly on a wall by hands other than the artist’s. LeWitt’s Wall Drawings constituted a revolution in drawing and painting. The artist has been the subject of numerous exhibitions worldwide. A major retrospective organized by and first seen at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2000, traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Liz Deschenes (b. 1966, Boston) lives and works in New York and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988. She teaches at Bennington College and is a visiting artist at Columbia University’s School of Visual Arts and Yale University. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. Recently, Deschenes was the subject of solo exhibitions at MASS MoCA and the Walker Art Center.

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