Richard Tuttle: Prints and Related Works
March 19 - April 30, 1994



We are pleased to announce an exhibitioin of our print projects with Richard Tuttle over the last twenty years, together with unique works relating to each project.

In testing the boundaries of two-and-three-dimensional structures, these print projects have often served the artist as a source for further work, which, when seen next to the original prints, reveal themselves as rich elaborations and resonant tropes on his initial ideas. And vie versa, unique works have led the artist to further explore his ideas through printmaking.

In Interlude, 1974 (subtitled Kinesthetic Drawings), a book in a limited edition of 24, which relates directly to his wire pieces, Tuttle explores the gesture of his arm and hand as they move on the paper through time and space. In the wire pieces, a pencil line is drawn diretly on the wall with a wire attached to the end points of the drawn line but falling out into space and thus casting a linear shadow on the wall. All three lines operate on a different level of reality, yet they are unified in describing a three-dimensional space.

The edition Print, 1976 resulted in another body of work, the collage drawings. More recently, derived from a poster he designed to benefit the New York Poetry Project, Tuttle developed a suite of lithographs, Perceived Obstacles, 1991 which in turn became the vehicle for a series of objects featured in a travelling retrospective in European museums.