MCA – Collection: Howardena Pindell, Video Drawings: Abstract, 1976

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Images of Howardena Pindell, Video Drawings: Abstract

Howardena Pindell, American, b. 1943
Video Drawings: Abstract, 1976
Chromogenic print
Framed: 13 1/4 × 16 in. (33.7 × 40.6 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Anixter Art Acquisition Fund, 2016.8
Courtesy the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York

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Howardena Pindell, Rambo Real Estate: Homelessness, 1987
1. Short A collage in the pentagon shape of a simple house is made of old yellowed newspapers. On top of the complex patterns of words is the word HOMELESSNESS in white letters in the center.
2. Short A collage of real estate listings from old newspapers forms the crude shape of a simple house. The news clippings, which are black ink on manilla paper, are combined in a way that the lines of text form complex stochastic patterns. In the center of the collage is the word: HOMELESSNESS in white letters.
Howardena Pindell, Free, White and 21, 1980
Howardena Pindell, Untitled #20 (Dutch Wives Circled and Squared), 1978
1. Short A primarily beige-looking canvas is actually composed of many small dots of light blues, pinks, oranges, and purples.
Howardena Pindell, Video Drawings: Hockey, 1975
Howardena Pindell, Video Drawings: Swimming, 1975
1. Short A grainy image of an outstretched person is seen in profile against a blue background and covered with numbered black arrows and dots in a seemingly random arrangement.
2. Short A grainy image of an outstretched person is seen in profile against a blue background and covered with numbered black arrows and dots in a seemingly random arrangement.
3. Short A grainy image of an outstretched person is seen in profile against a blue background and covered with numbered black arrows and dots in a seemingly random arrangement.

Exhibitions

Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen
Sat, Feb 24, 2018–Sun, May 20, 2018
1. Short An oval composition consists of numerous colorful circles that overlap and jut out in different directions from a dark background.

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