Artwork Details
- Title
- Presents with Secrets
- Artist
- Date
- 1980
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 96 x 96 x 96 in. (243.8 x 243.8 x 243.8 cm)
- Copyright
- © 1980, Charles Arnoldi
- Credit Line
- Gift of Gerald and Katie Peters
- Mediums Description
- wood
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Abstract
- Object Number
- 2001.57A-D
Artwork Description
The lengths of wood reminded him of drawn or painted lines, and Arnoldi realized that he had found a way to emulate his abstract-expressionist heroes. He carefully plotted a network of branches to look like random, crosshatched brushstrokes. Presents with Secrets evokes a painting, a sculpture, a shelter, and a child's ritual of pickup sticks, and conveys a sunny optimism often associated with Southern California culture.
Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006