Dennis Kowalski
American, born 1937
Black Septagon
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Dennis Kowalski
American, born 19371978
Black Septagon
Dennis Kowalski American, born 1937 →pen and ink drawingsdrawings (visual works)
Date
1978
Medium
Black paint stick, over traces of graphite, on white wove paper
Dimensions
91.2 × 125 cm (35 15/16 × 49 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Marianne Deson
This drawing by Dennis Kowalski, a Chicago native and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumnus, alludes to floor pieces composed of eccentric geometric shapes—here a septagon, or seven-sided form—that he made in the late 1970s using aluminum and cement. In 1993 Chicago Tribune art critic Alan Artner called Kowalksi “one of the few real maverick artists in the city, one who occasionally has prefigured here kinds of work that eventually caught on in more open art centers.” Kowalski enjoyed a long career as a professor of sculpture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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