Drawing Seeing

Line as Structure

Fred Sandback, No. 85, 1969, yarn installation stretching taut lines across a gallery corner to imply a three-dimensional geometric volume
Fred Sandback, yarn installation at Lisson Gallery, vertical and diagonal lines of colored yarn defining implied planar volumes in space
Los Carpinteros, Inmunidad, architectural drawing rendered in precise ink line, using structure and line to define spatial enclosure
Los Carpinteros, architectural installation drawing, geometric line construction suggesting structure through linear framework alone
Ed Ruscha, painting featuring bold stenciled text as a structural compositional element against a landscape background
Ed Ruscha, painting with large architectural text rendered in flat graphic line against a soft atmospheric background
Barry Le Va, scatter installation, felt and metal objects distributed across gallery floor using line and interval to structure space
Barry Le Va, diagram drawing showing the planned distribution and linear relationships of a scatter installation
Jackie Ferrara, large-scale stepped wood sculpture with precise geometric planar surfaces creating a tiered pyramidal structure
Jackie Ferrara, 1980 Recall, tall stepped wooden tower sculpture with receding planar tiers forming a strong geometric structural rhythm
Bruce Nauman, Dream Passage, corridor installation with yellow and white walls creating a narrow passage that uses line and plane to structure bodily experience
Bruce Nauman, neon corridor installation, glowing colored lines of neon tubing defining an architectural passageway through pure linear structure
Martin Puryear, Untitled (State II), 2014, aquatint, abstract organic form defined by a single flowing contour line suggesting three-dimensional structural volume
Rachel Whiteread, cast sculpture of the negative space beneath a staircase, concrete form revealing structural geometry through absence and line
Thomas Scheibitz, painting with simplified geometric planes of flat color forming an abstract architectural composition
Paul Noble, large-scale pencil drawing of a dense fictional architectural cityscape, structure built entirely through precise descriptive line
Anselm Kiefer, Veneziano Amplitude, large-scale painting with heavily textured layered materials and lead, straw and paint forming a landscape of structural weight and line
Paul Cadmus, portrait drawing using cross-contour line to model the structural planes of a face, fine hatching following the form
Taylor McKimens, energetic figurative drawing with bold gestural line and structural mark-making defining figures in dynamic poses
Taylor McKimens, second drawing with expressive structural line work, figures rendered through bold confident marks that define planar form

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