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Untitled #25 (For a Rabbit Named Pink)
Artist
Howardena Pindell
(Born 1943, United States)
Date2023
MediumMixed media on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 81 1/2 × 107 in. (207.01 × 271.78 cm)
Credit LineCollection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum purchase
Object number2024.2
Status
On viewLabel TextArtist, curator, educator, and activist Howardena Pindell demonstrates the transformative power wielded by the artist’s hand. Part of a group of women artists known for humanizing Minimalism by reintroducing handmade objects, since the 1970s, Pindell’s expansive career has utilized a variety of media, employing texture, color, and process to examine social issues. Regardless of the medium she engages with, the artist explores by destroying and reconstructing the materials to reinforce her reexamination of understood artistic and social concepts.
Untitled #25 (For a Rabbit Named Pink), 2023, is representative of Pindell’s extensive material experimentation. Thousands of meticulously hole-punched paper circles are embedded into a monochromatic color field of soft pink. Visible traces of labor are evident across the work’s surface, particularly in the clusters of circular paint bubbles where the artist squeegeed paint through handmade stencils. Beneath this textured surface, strips of canvas are sewn together, with the stitching peeking through to illuminate the presence of the grid. Like other Minimalist artists, Pindell utilizes the grid, though she buries it beneath layers of handmade minute details rather than highlighting it.
Untitled #25 (For a Rabbit Named Pink), 2023, is representative of Pindell’s extensive material experimentation. Thousands of meticulously hole-punched paper circles are embedded into a monochromatic color field of soft pink. Visible traces of labor are evident across the work’s surface, particularly in the clusters of circular paint bubbles where the artist squeegeed paint through handmade stencils. Beneath this textured surface, strips of canvas are sewn together, with the stitching peeking through to illuminate the presence of the grid. Like other Minimalist artists, Pindell utilizes the grid, though she buries it beneath layers of handmade minute details rather than highlighting it.