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Accession #	2018.13
Artist	Ed Clark
Title	Untitled
Date	1978-1980
Medium	Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
Dimensions	66 × 77 in. (167.6 × 195.6 cm)
Credit Line	Purchased with funds given by The LIFEWTR Fund at Frieze New York 2018
Location	Visible Storage: Case 23, Screen L (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks: Ed Clark employed a common push broom to manipulate globs of acrylic paint into broad and expressive strokes of color. Through his use of a cleaning tool that references labor and physicality, Clark, like many other postwar Black artists, transformed the possibilities of gestural abstraction. The resulting gradient bands of pigment reveal the movement of the bristles across the paint to create mesmerizing, tactile effects as the colors drip and spill into one another.