Circa 1997 Gale Antokal Two Black + White Balls Pastel Drawing, Framed

Design Plus Gallery presents 2 Black & White Balls, a framed pastel by Gale Antokal, late 1990’s. Using her fingertips and choice of medium, these stark figures are mesmerizing in the symmetry and perfection. Professionally matted and framed, protected by glass; condition is good.

Note: Companion Gale Antokal Art may be available.

“Gale Antokal Statement:
The ordinary yet delicate nature of my drawing materials underscores the unsettling images and important ideas they describe. Flour, ash, graphite, and chalk mix into fragile dusty surfaces that show the trace elements we leave behind when subject to catastrophe, or displacement, the initial moment as things begin to move or take flight: crashing waves, smoke, and ash…
My images have two significant threads: the consequence of identity, its’ location, and the way memory and history are forged from everyday moments. The evanescence of all that is, has been a theme in my work for twenty years and is now entwined with current events. The fleeting nature of my powder media, one brush against the paper and the image I draw with only one fingertip, vanishes. We are reminded how quickly the lessons of history can be forgotten.