Cellular Disorder 10

ca. 1985

Not on view

Sharits’s earlier experiments with flicker films—in which rapidly alternating black, white, or colored frames appear to pulse on screen—informed this hallucinatory yet diagrammatic drawing. Cellular Disorder 10 is designed to conduct spectral analysis by diffracting light into systems of densely packed multicolored lines. Due to the interplay between warm and cool colors, this drawing produces unpredictable patterns that seem to vibrate frenetically.

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Title: Cellular Disorder 10
Artist: Paul Sharits (American, Denver, Colorado 1943–1993 Buffalo, New York)
Date: ca. 1985
Medium: Colored porous-point pens on graph paper
Dimensions: 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, Everett Hoffman Gift, 2014
Object Number: 2014.550
Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Paul Sharits
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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