"The definition of being a modern person is to examine yourself, to reflect on yourself and to be a self-knowledgeable person."
—Josiah McElheny
"Constructed Painting: If Love Had Wings: A Perpetual Canon" (1972)
"Constructed Painting: If Love Had Wings: A Perpetual Canon," 1972
Installation view at Pasadena Art Museum, California
Torn canvas squares, lacquer stain, varnish, silicone and adhesive caulking, 110 x 331 inches
Photo by Frank Thomas
© Allan McCollum
Courtesy the artist
Installation view at Pasadena Art Museum, California
Torn canvas squares, lacquer stain, varnish, silicone and adhesive caulking, 110 x 331 inches
Photo by Frank Thomas
© Allan McCollum
Courtesy the artist
"I was very influenced by the Fluxus artists whose goal was to take away the mystery of being an artist and devalue the mystique that only an artist can make a certain kind of mark and that you have to be a special, special person to do this or that. I was rebelling against that, even in the very first artwork I ever made."
-Allan McCollum
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