Irregular Form - Denver, CO - Abstract Public Sculptures on Waymarking.com

"Irregular Form is an expansive “wall drawing,” a term that connotes both the artwork’s flat, linear nature and artist Sol LeWitt’s use of the wall itself as an art material. Comprised of irregular slabs of gray slate on a black granite background, the artwork’s immense scale [36 feet by 70 feet] and striking contour exert a commanding presence in its urban environment. Captured within a sturdy, grid-like framework that references the rational, geometric ordering of the entire building, the unwieldy appendages of the gray form are firmly anchored to the supporting architecture. This playful tension between organic and geometric elements is a hallmark of LeWitt’s innovative wall drawing technique.

LeWitt considers the architecture an integral component of his work, using the walls as parts of the compositions and for drawing. Although the irregular gray form projects from the wall in low relief, like an extra layer of skin, it was not conceived as a decorative sculpture affixed to an inert wall surface. Instead, Irregular Form is a part of the architectural fabric of the courthouse. The interplay of the artwork’s gray and black areas allows each to be read alternately as positive figure and negative void.

In this artwork, LeWitt eliminated all representational subject matter in order to focus attention on the formal grammars of line, shape, texture, color, and scale. The temptation, however, may remain for viewers to discern in Irregular Form some sort of pictorial references—be they geological, botanical, meteorological, or cartographic. (page 24)" (visit link)

Title: Irregular Form Artist: Sol LeWitt Media (materials) used: Gray Slate Mortared to a Black Granite Supporting Wall Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Alfred A. Arraj US Courthouse Date of creation or placement: 2004

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