Baptismal Candidates

Jack Spencer

1995

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Owl with layers of squares; lace patterns in light color; monochromatic painting
A large vertical painting on canvas, primarily black, with irregular lines of various colors (violet, crimson, gray) that run horizontally across its surface. A band of approximately 1-½ inches runs top-to-bottom along the left vertical edge of the canvas, revealing a gray painted ground beneath the aforementioned surface. The painting is unframed.
Two black men sit in a room, smoking cigarettes.
The Sigh of the True Cross, Mel Chin, pine, olive, ash, mud, steel, ox gut and teff