Range

Donald Moffett|Robert Beck

1997 · Fudge and graphite on paperboard · Modern and Contemporary Art

In the 1980s and ’90s, Beck and Moffett were deeply engaged in countering the often cruel politics and policies that attended the AIDS crisis. For these drawings—their sole collaboration—Beck provided Moffett with one of his signature shot-through notebooks. On its inside pages and covers, Moffett traced kaleidoscopic patterns around each puncture with graphite and fudge. The designs speak to Moffett’s abstract painting practice while also emphasizing the perversity and violence of the gunshot holes—puckered wounds that evoke a particularly fraught, and perhaps beautiful, scatological aperture of the body.

Artist

Donald Moffett|Robert Beck

Date

1997

Medium

Fudge and graphite on paperboard

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Purchase, The Cowles Charitable Trust Gift and Van Day Truex Fund, 2013