Untitled #2

Howardena Pindell

1973 · Ink and punched paper, graphite, on paper · Modern and Contemporary Art

Here Pindell inscribed numbers onto punched dots and then pasted them onto a sheet of graph paper. The dots sit uncomfortably in the grid of squares, creating an ordered but dense thicket of visual information. Pindell’s numerical notations appear purposeful, perhaps even algorithmic, but they amount to nothing but diagrammatic babble, taunting our desire to make sense of—to rationalize—their content.

Artist

Howardena Pindell

Date

1973

Medium

Ink and punched paper, graphite, on paper

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Purchase, Friends of the Department Gifts and matching funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1978