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Color-coded Study for Expansion/Contraction

Color-coded Study for Expansion/Contraction

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Athena Tacha

Athena Tacha is perhaps best known for her site-specific sculptures and monuments; however, the artist has worked in a multitude of mediums including photography, drawing, conceptual art, and installation. Regardless of medium, Tacha consistently employs shape, repetition, discontinuity, and color to explore and emulate forms and rhythms she observes in nature. Athena Tacha’s drawing practice is integral to her development of public works and site-specific installations. “Color-coded Study for Expansion/Contraction” is a two-dimensional, topographical study for a hypothetical installation. Around 1977-1982, Tacha explored the opposing forces of expansion and contraction, culminating in several drawings, a sculptural model, and two photographs.
Artist
Athena Tacha
(American, b. Greece 1936)
Title
Color-coded Study for Expansion/Contraction
Date
1980
Medium
Oil pastel on rag vellum paper
Dimensions
60 x 36 in. overall
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession No.
2020.20.2
Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
Geography
United States

Related

2020, the artist, Athena Tacha (Washington, DC), and Richard Spear (Washington, DC) gifted to the Chazen Museum of Art

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