Dennis Oppenheim: The Blueprint Drawings and Selected Sculpture

March 10 - April 10, 1992

Dennis Oppenheim: The Blueprint Drawings and Selected Sculpture concentrates on a rarely exhibited body of work—one that has not yet been documented in book form. It is the first museum exhibition of Oppenheim’s large “blueprint” drawings, which have been made archival by transferring original blueprints onto cloth. These visually striking works have been carefully reworked with collages of transparent and opaque overlays, and thus graphic works in their own right. The exhibition also features selections of original pencil-on-vellum drawings, recent color drawings, models for sculptures, and one full-scale sculptural work.

Dennis Oppenheim is known worldwide as a highly influential figure in contemporary art. Since the mid-1960s, his work has progressed through series which virtually defined Land Art, Body Art, and the use of video and film in sculpture, moving to his Factory, Machineworks, and Fireworks projects of the 1970s, and more recently to series of kinetic sculptures and installations.