{"title":"Richard Artschwager","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Artschwager (1923–2013) was an American artist whose work occupied an unclassifiable position between sculpture, painting, furniture, and language. Trained as a cabinetmaker, he began making art in the early 1960s, producing objects that mimicked the appearance of functional furniture while refusing to function — tables that cannot be used, chairs that cannot be sat in, surfaces that simulate wood grain or upholstery through Formica and Celotex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtschwager was associated with both Minimalism and Pop Art without belonging fully to either. His work engaged with representation, domesticity, and the ambiguity of objects — asking what separates a sculpture from a piece of furniture, or an image from a surface. He also introduced the \u003cem\u003eblp\u003c\/em\u003e: a small, oval, hair-like mark that he placed in unexpected locations in galleries, cities, and publications as a kind of perceptual interruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kunsthalle Basel, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and the Sprengel Museum Hannover, among others. A major retrospective was presented at the Whitney Museum in 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New Rare holds printed matter and exhibition ephemera related to Richard Artschwager, including invitation cards, catalogues, and publications from exhibitions spanning his career.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/richard-artschwager.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}