These etchings by Richard Serra [2003.9.1.A-B, 2003.9.3.A-B, 2003.9.4.A-B, 2003.5.A-B] are part of his series called Weights and Measures, which exists in various forms: sculpture, drawings, and prints. Serra installed the series's sculpture, which consisted of two similar-looking but in fact very differently scaled steel rectangles, in a long central hall at the Tate Gallery in London, using the axis of the hallway to play off a viewer’s variable perception of distance, size, and matter. In a similar way, Serra’s prints and drawings of the series are deceptively complex renderings of how one form reacts with another in space, and all that this implies.

Adapted from

• Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 48.

• Jeffrey Grove, DMA Label copy, Variations on Theme: Contemporary Art 1950s - Present, 2012.

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