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City Skip

1984

Steven McCallum

(American, 1951-)
Culture
America
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Measurements
Overall: 213.3 x 213.3 cm (84 x 84 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Striar 2005.154
Copyright
© Steven McCallum
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
228A Cleveland Artists
Print
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Did You Know?

After moving to New York City in 1980, McCallum served as a studio assistant to Al Held, an artist also represented in the CMA’s collection.

Description

After earning studio art degrees from Kent State University, McCallum launched his career creating large abstractions with complex layers of densely packed, razor-sharp shapes in raucous color.Evoking the energy of a metropolis, City Skip brims with beams, channels, grids, and wiry lines. The composition is further animated by accents of metallic paint.
Square acrylic painting completely covered with strips, zig-zags, and lines of solid cover cutting across the canvas in every direction. Thick strips in shades of light-blue and medium-red intersect in grids with shades of light-yellow zig-zagging and light-pink and yellow cross-hatching across. Fine black and white lines occasionally dangle and curve over the composition and black triangles intersperse among the lines. Thick orange and green cross-hatching cut horizontally across the upper center.

City Skip

1984

Steven McCallum

(American, 1951-)
America

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