
© Jacob Kassay
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© Jacob Kassay
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© Jacob Kassay
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Jacob Kassay
American, born 1984
Untitled, 2011
acrylic on linen, oak, silver deposit on canvas, graphite on wall
overall: 49 1/4 x 178 1/4 inches (125.1 x 452.76 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 2011
2011:49a-d
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Jacob Kassay challenges the traditional parameters of artmaking in conceptually driven installations that respond to and occupy their environment in unexpected ways. Untitled is a multipart work that takes into consideration both the space within an object as well as the area that surrounds it. Kassay’s unusual configuration relies on a simple, visual trope. A painting with a shallow concave indent is installed to the left of two small canvases bisected by a single, slightly curved pencil mark so that the space between them suggests a perfect circle. Here, the act of drawing on the wall—which can be performed by whomever installs the work—narrates the gap between the paintings, uniting them in a singular composition.
Label from Drawing: The Beginning of Everything, July 8–October 15, 2017