Drawing Upon Frameworks

Date:
2019

Client:
Self Initiated

Material:
Colored Pencil on Bristol Board

Photo:
N/A

"Inspired by the ruthless efficiency of László Moholy-Nagy's EM 2 (Telephone Picture) and the instructions for Sol Lewitt's Wall Drawings, I wanted to devise a framework for mixing color. The process is as follows: There are 24 randomly selected colored pencils. Each pencil is used to make six parallel hash marks in eight consecutive positions within the table. The angle of each consecutive color’s hash marks should be greater than 15 degrees from the previous color. The table is comprised of 32 positions arranged in an 8 x 4 grid. Starting in the top left corner, the first color spans the entire top row. The second color begins in the second position and continues for eight positions. The third begins in the third position and so on."

The work was commissioned for the Furnishing Utopia exhibition Drawing Upon Frameworks. The exhibition took place during New York Design Week 2019 at the Herman Miller Showroom in Manhattan.

About Furnishing Utopia
Furnishing Utopia is an independent design collective that underscores the influence of Shaker design on modernist furniture and interiors, while providing context for many of the materials, colors, and silhouettes so predominant in the present-day global design community. Led by Oregon-based Studio Gorm, 14 international design studios have created more than 55 original objects for exhibitions in New York and Stockholm.