Untitled (Deer)

Albert Freeman

Mid-20th century

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Prairie scene with stand of evergreens in upper right; buffalo traverse the left side of canvas from background to foreground. Red line divides canvas horizontally; red pigment bleeds from the line diagonally toward lower half of canvas. Pink and blue V-shapes evoking birds fly in wavy and swirling lines that traverse canvas from top to bottom. Lines of red arrows flow from top to bottom together with the buffalo; yellow and green arrows travel canvas from bottom to top, toward trees; white arrows form circular swirls in the sky.
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Wiley has diagonally bisected this composition into a heavily painted upper section of dense patterns, and a lower section in which he drew on the raw canvas in pencil, creating a vast network of doodles, notes, visual puns, and diagrams.
On two large panels, a black v-shape made of paint, signs, and other material appears in the center of a grey field of paint. In the top center section, a microphone is placed, its cord hanging down and connecting into a sandbox filled with cards that have word "secret" on them.