Double Imagery,

1967

Nevelson is best known for her monochromatic painted relief sculptures that gather pieces of found wood into abstract compositions. To make this print, one of sixteen lithographs from her Double Imagery series, she employed a similar assemblage technique. She cut irregular shapes from a wet print and laid the pieces onto an inverted or reversed impression of the print. The irregularly cut fragments of paper served as blotters, absorbing a lighter, semitransparent impression of the original saturated print. The varying weights and densities of color and the delicate skein of lines carved into the lithograph matrix lend these works visual and spatial complexity, while Nevelson’s process of recombining sections of her own prints to create the forms for future compositions recalls her approach to sculpture.