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  , Circle 2, 2005

 

Circle 2, 2005

Balsa wood, wood, acrylic, cotton rope, caulking, paper, cotton gauze and plastic

20 x 20 ½ x 3 ¾ inches 

  , Circle 1, 2005

 

Circle 1, 2005

Acrylic, mat board, nails, wood, matte acrylic medium and sand

16 inches diameter 

  , Circle 3, 2005            

 

Circle 3, 2005            

Paper, tinsel, acrylic, foam core, glue, wire, nail, cardboard and black caulking

9 ¼ x 9 ¾ x 3 ½ inches 

  , Circle 4, 2005

 

Circle 4, 2005

Acrylic yarn, balsa wood, museum board, silver lamé fabric, acrylic, glue, nail and matte acrylic medium

19 3/8 x 13 3/8 x 1 inches

  , Circle 5, 2005                                                            

 

Circle 5, 2005                                                            

Paper, foam core, graphite, oil stick, acetate, construction paper, foil, nails, wood, wire, acrylic cellophane tape, and enamel spray paint

84 ½ x 43 ½ x 5 inches

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Circle 6, 2005

Wood, museum board, acrylic, Plexiglas, wire, stuffed and sewn fake fur, masking tape, acetate and cardboard

60 ½ x 54 x 12 inches overall

PRESS RELEASE

 

Richard Tuttle

16 September – 28 October 2005

Opening reception: Friday, 16 September, 6 to 8 pm

 

Anthony Meier Fine Arts is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by artist Richard Tuttle. Exhibiting at the gallery for the second time, Tuttle’s intelligent, abstract, unassuming yet aggressive vision has raised the bar on contemporary art for over 40 years.

During the winter of 2004 Tuttle unveiled a new body of work in the Drawing Center exhibition A Room for 3 People. Comprised of six ‘villages,’ groupings of a sculpture and two sets of drawings, the show investigated the relationship between the artist, collector and art historian. The essence of the Drawing Center exhibition, and an ongoing topic presented by Tuttle’s work for many years, is that the moment artwork is installed in a public setting it ceases to belong only to the artist; it now belongs to art history and there will be a public determination of its success or failure.

The structural dynamic of the work exhibited at Anthony Meier Fine Arts is an extension of the ‘village’ line. Materials as varied and unorthodox as sand, yarn, nails, faux fur and tinsel are attached to balsa wood, museum board or paper backs in a group of work Tuttle has titled Circles.  

Four of the Circles are individual pieces while two others are comprised of an assemblage of two and three-dimensional components.  How the works sit on the wall, the space taken up by their tangible footprints in relation to the visual—and sometimes emotional space—they take up, is an interesting and arresting conversation.

Also included in the exhibition are six drawings made during the installation of Tuttle’s first museum retrospective, The Art of Richard Tuttle, currently on view at the SFMOMA through October 16th. The retrospective will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art, Des Moines Art Center, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

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