Cellular Disorder 10
Sharits’s earlier experiments with flicker films—in which rapidly alternating black, white, or colored frames appear to pulse on screen—informed this hallucinatory yet diagrammatic drawing. Cellular Disorder 10 is designed to conduct spectral analysis by diffracting light into systems of densely packed multicolored lines. Due to the interplay between warm and cool colors, this drawing produces unpredictable patterns that seem to vibrate frenetically.
Artwork Details
- Title: Cellular Disorder 10
- Artist: Paul Sharits (American, Denver, Colorado 1943–1993 Buffalo, New York)
- Date: ca. 1985
- Medium: Colored porous-point pens on graph paper
- Dimensions: 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Everett Hoffman Gift, 2014
- Object Number: 2014.550
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Paul Sharits
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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