Martin Puryear Quote

I value the referential quality of art, the fact that a work can allude to things or states of being without in any way representing them.


Wall text, Museum of Modern Art (2007)


I value the referential quality of art, the fact that a work can allude to things or states of being without in any way representing them.

I value the referential quality of art, the fact that a work can allude to things or states of being without in any way representing them.

I value the referential quality of art, the fact that a work can allude to things or states of being without in any way representing them.

I value the referential quality of art, the fact that a work can allude to things or states of being without in any way representing them.