2015.33.6 Stephen Antonakos, Wall Hanging Neon

Drawing was a central and innovative practice throughout Stephen Antonakos’s life. Wall Hanging Neon is one of a broad and distinctively imaginative series, sometimes called “Project Drawings,” spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s. On these 14 x 22 inch sheets, hundreds of new ideas for spatial work with neon were captured in their spontaneous moment in graphite and colored pencil and with energetic swooshes of Krylon fixative to suggest the activation of space. Generally through this series, the sculptures depicted increase in scale and become more engaged with their architectural sites. Whether realized in neon or not, the dynamic graphic concepts from these years reveal the definitive engagement with formal geometry and space that never stopped. After the early 1970s, Antonakos’s drawings were no longer representational; they became concrete, “real things in real space” them­selves. Over the decades, the drawings evolved from images toward objects—but continued the energy and the “active hand” already clear in this essential early series.

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