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Agnes LeWitt

Artist/Maker (American, b. 1961)
Date2007
MediumEncaustic on panel
DimensionsOverall: 42 1/8 × 32 × 2 3/4 in. (107 × 81.3 × 7 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist in celebration of the Museum's Centennial
Object number2017.11
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Martin KlineMore Information
As its title attests, this work by Martin Kline pays homage to the influence of artists Agnes Martin and Sol LeWitt. Borrowing and remixing Martin’s regimented grids and LeWitt’s geometric boxes, Kline further riffs on their strategies of repetition in his use of encaustic, a method of suspending colored pigment in wax that is applied with a palette knife, brush, or heat wand. A technique popular in ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt, encaustic hinges on accumulation, on the continual addition of layers to build form, depth, and texture, giving the resulting work a topographical quality.
Exhibition History
Martin Kline: Romantic Nature
  • New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT (March 17, 2012 - June 17, 2012 )
Martin Kline: Excerpts in Encaustic
  • Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn Harbor, NY (November 17, 2012 - February 24, 2013 )
Do It Again: Repetition as Artistic Strategy, 1945 to Now
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 25, 2020 - July 2, 2021 )
New Acquisitions and Old Friends
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 3, 2021 - June 12, 2022 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary