Eric Tillinghast

American, born 1974

Section Drawings

© Eric Tillinghast

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© Eric Tillinghast

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

© Eric Tillinghast

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

Section Drawings, 2004

Artwork Details

Materials

set of fifteen drawings: ink and graphite on paper

Measurements

sheet (each): 14 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (36.83 x 36.83 cm); frame (each): 14 3/4 x 14 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches (37.46 x 37.46 x 3.81 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Lisa Forman Neall and Gabrielle Forman, 2012

Accession ID

2012:66.44a-o

During his teenage years, Eric Tillinghast became interested in art—especially the medium of drawing. Although his imagery was initially representational, he eventually paired down his compositions to the most basic form: a single line. Following his studies abroad, Tillinghast returned to his home state of California. There, his style began to change. First, his drawings lost any sign of the figure, evolving into stark lines the color of steel. Soon he turned to steel itself as a medium, creating individual box-like constructions that he finished by engraving geometric lines and patterns onto their surfaces. Eventually, he began configuring his imagery into gridded compositions, such as Section Drawings. Tillinghast’s minimal drawings are emblematic of his attention to detail. Section Drawings is a series of fifteen images of circular segments. When presented altogether, the works force the viewer’s mind to comprehend visually the whole suggested by each of the arcs.

Label from Drawing: The Beginning of Everything, July 8–October 15, 2017

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