4 . 7 . 78

Ellen de Mello Weiland

1980

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Downshift, Reesa Milam, intaglio
This work was painted in animated marks that register as pattern and act to blur distinctions between the figures and their setting. Young has imposed compositional order through a stacked vertical arrangement that builds from urban structures to a row of elongated linear figures, a procession that does not so much carry the huge figure above them as celebrate his ascension into the mountains at the top of the image.
Bust of Bear Bryant.
On a horizontally-oriented silver rectangle appear red, ochre, and blue flag-like shapes, a black rectangle, and a twisted black line