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Richard Artschwager explores perceptual experience through powerful, generalized abstractions of recognized and unremarkable objects, such as tables or chairs, which stimulate the viewer to ponder the difference between functionality and pure objectness. In much of his work, common construction materials such as Formica and Celotex (which Artschwager first encountered in the craft of furniture making) become double-edged signifiers, pointed reminders that things are not necessarily what they seem in the arbitrary universe of individual perception. Artschwager blatantly denies efforts to quantify, detail, or encompass the functional aspects of his subjects. His belief in the use of everyday forms as the basis of his sculpture and his intellectual approach to object making place him historically as a pivotal figure between pop and minimalism, and in this sense his work could be described as “neopop,” or as he says, “preliterate vision...”
- Terrie Sultan, formerly Curator of Contemporary Art Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online
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