Jasper Johns, Corpse and Mirror II, 1974-75, oil & sand on canvas (4 panels), 57 x 75 inches
Jasper Johns, Corpse and Mirror II (detail)
Craig F. Starr Gallery is featuring a remarkable collection of Jasper Johns "Crosshatch" paintings -- some that have never been shown, through January 18, 2020.
Johns developed this motif in the mid 1970s, and it is a distinct high point in his oeuvre. Emerging at a moment when painting was marginalized, this body of work marks Johns' first major foray into pure abstraction, and is a tour de force of sensuality and conceptual rigor. Here Johns devised an intricate system of mirrored structures that allowed him to dance around the space/plane of the painting, moving this way and that, building beautiful matrices of existential engagement.
Jasper Johns, Between the Clock and the Bed, 1983, oil on canvas, 17 x 30 inches
Jasper Johns, Between the Clock and the Bed, 1983, oil on canvas, 17 x 30 inches
Jasper Johns, Cicada, 1979, oil on canvas, 30 x 22 inches
Jasper Johns, Cicada, 1979, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches
Jasper Johns, Dancers on a Plane, 1982, graphite wash on India paper, 35 x 27 inches
