Lot Essay
"He has magnified the medium with immense black shapes that sit directly on the wall, their absorptive darkness forcing the space around them to expand or contract. Using black oil paintstick, he has exaggerated drawing’s physical surface, creating expanses of texture that have the rough tactility of bark, or massing dark, roiled spheres as thick as mud pies.”
—R. Smith, “Sketches from the Man of Steel,” The New York Times, 14 April 2011
—R. Smith, “Sketches from the Man of Steel,” The New York Times, 14 April 2011