Object Notes

Richter’s editions encompass a wide array of media—not only two-dimensional prints, paintings, and photographs but books and objects as well. These spheres are emblematic of the contradictory position Richter often took on authorship and subjectivity.

Richter’s editions encompass a wide array of media—not only two-dimensional prints, paintings, and photographs but books and objects as well. These spheres are emblematic of the contradictory position Richter often took on authorship and subjectivity.

These blocks of color are in many ways the epitome of abstraction, a key focus of Gerhard Richter’s later work; yet, these particular colors, when placed in conjunction, echo the German flag.

In Un-Painting (Gray), Gerhard Richter smeared liquid paint with his finger in numerous strokes onto synthetic paper. While his gesture was captured in the traces that remain, the title points more to destruction than creation.

Notorious for adopting an attitude of indifference toward his subject matter, Gerhard Richter’s Loo Paper presents an ordinary roll of toilet paper as an appropriate subject

Everything and More explores the visual and bodily sensations of space travel and self-awareness. As a foundation for the work, Rose uses interviews she conducted with David Wolf, a NASA astronaut, in which he describes seeing the Earth from space for the first time.