Form and Geometry

This drawing, Oil Stick Drawing, Untitled 10, is from a series of works created in the mid 1990’s that engage with form and geometry in two dimensions.

“But art tends instead to render form evident, to give a physical presence even to geometry. In fact Schatz’s forms, whether in two or three dimensions, are always concrete linguistic realities, statements of an order of ideas that is never repressive and closed, but fertile and unpredictable. In every case, the forms germinate and multiply with unexpected placements that unfold the potential of a new geometric eroticism. These forms are always of a domestic monumentality, which does not allude to the arrogance of American skyscrapers or to the rhetoric of sculpture.”

– Achille Bonito Oliva, Director of the 1993 Venice Biennial, from the catalog accompanying the exhibition, Lincoln Schatz: Sculpture + Drawings + Prints, at Galeria Ferran Cano. View all of the drawings in collection here.