82123 — Richard Tuttle, Notebook VI, 5 of 12 (detail), 2010, work on paper, 15" × 21" (38.1 cm × 53.3 cm) © Richard Tuttle

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Notebooks

Richard Tuttle revels in visual quandaries, finding beauty in combinations of unconventional materials and forms. He often blurs the boundaries between mediums, reimagining and redefining what a painting, sculpture, drawing, print, or installation can be. Over the course of six decades, the artist has been a restless investigator of liminality and poetry, with language playing a central role in his practice.

Notebook V, 1 of 9 by Richard Tuttle — Richard Tuttle, Notebook V, 1 of 9, 2010, acrylic and graphite on paper, 18" × 24" (45.7 cm × 61 cm)

Notebook VI, 2 of 12 by Richard Tuttle — Richard Tuttle, Notebook VI, 2 of 12, 2010, acrylic and graphite on paper, 15" × 21" (38.1 cm × 53.3 cm)

Notebook VI, 5 of 12 by Richard Tuttle — Richard Tuttle, Notebook VI, 5 of 12, 2010, acrylic and graphite on paper, 15" × 21" (38.1 cm × 53.3 cm)

Complementing Tuttle’s solo exhibition Particles at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street Gallery, which continues through June 11, this focused online presentation spotlights nine works on paper within the artist’s notebooks. All dating to 2010, these pieces reflect the artist’s ability to imbue abstractions with playful, lyrical qualities. Fully revealing themselves to viewers only through close looking and contemplation, the works in this exhibition bring Tuttle’s interest in formal nuance and subtlety to the fore.

Notebook III, 9 of 10 by Richard Tuttle — Richard Tuttle, Notebook III, 9 of 10, 2010, acrylic and graphite on paper, 15" × 21" (38.1 cm × 53.3 cm)

The drawings in this online presentation were exhibited within spiral bound books as part of Tuttle’s solo exhibition Slide at the Bergen Kunsthall in Norway in 2012. The notebooks’ pages were flipped during the run of that show, infusing a seemingly static display with novelty and unexpected, new meanings. For the present exhibition, individual works from these notebooks are framed in mahogany.

In Making Silver, an accompanying artist book and catalogue published after the run of Slide, Steinar Sekkingstad, curator at the Bergen Kunsthall, and Solveig Øvstebø, now the executive director and chief curator of the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, wrote of Tuttle’s drawings, “The assured execution reveals that what may seem like improvisations, or an expressive playing with form, are in reality accurate visual representations of formal ideas. Color, line, and the pressure of the hand with which each stroke is applied have all been executed with immense control and precision.”

Notebooks II, 11 of 12 by Richard Tuttle — Richard Tuttle, Notebooks II, 11 of 12, 2010, acrylic and graphite on paper, 15" × 21" (38.1 cm × 53.3 cm)

Notebook VII, 1 of 7 by Richard Tuttle — Richard Tuttle, Notebook VII, 1 of 7, 2010, acrylic and graphite on paper, 15" × 21" (38.1 cm × 53.3 cm)

Notebook XII, 10 of 12 by Richard Tuttle — Richard Tuttle, Notebook XII, 10 of 12, 2010, acrylic and graphite on paper, 15" × 21" (38.1 cm × 53.3 cm)

Notebook XI, 1 of 14 by Richard Tuttle — Richard Tuttle, Notebook XI, 1 of 14, 2010, acrylic and graphite on paper, 18" × 24" (45.7 cm × 61 cm)

Notebook IV, 9 of 9 by Richard Tuttle — Richard Tuttle, Notebook IV, 9 of 9, 2010, acrylic and graphite on paper, 21" × 15" (53.3 cm × 38.1 cm)

whole is after
a year is cap
ture-- how can you
capture the con
tents of a year
in the whole?

Richard Tuttle, 2022

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Past, Richard Tuttle, Notebooks, May 5, 2022