Wyatt Kahn

American, born 1983

Untitled

© Wyatt Kahn / Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE)

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© Wyatt Kahn / Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE)

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Untitled, 2016

Artwork Details

Materials

screen print and lithograph in three colors on Revere Standard white paper

Edition:

22/26

Measurements

sheet: 33 3/8 x 49 1/2 inches (84.77 x 125.73 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

Fellows for Life Fund, by exchange, 2017

Accession ID

P2017:9

This print is based on the drawings of artist Wyatt Kahn, who is known primarily for his compositions of closely spaced shaped canvases, like the 2013 example also in the Albright-Knox’s collection. Here, rigid lines intersect to form layered triangles suggestive of the cross section of an architectural structure. However, the sense of continuity among the white triangles contained within this construction and the white border (which gives shape to its right side) unsettles the distinction between figure and ground. This play between positive and negative space, between real two-dimensionality and illusory three-dimensionality is a hallmark of Kahn’s work across mediums.

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