Lee Bontecou: Daniel Weinberg Gallery. (Los Angeles).(Brief Article)

Spanning four decades, these twenty-seven drawings offer a glimpse of the most delicate works produced by an artist famous for her rugged sculptures in heavy canvas, wire, plastic, and other materials on steel armatures. The most recent drawings are generally the most refined, with draftsmanship that would knock an old master's socks off, and all show an unexpected sensitivity to drawing media.

This is not, however, the kinder, gentler side of Bontecou, whose work, even at its most elegant, is never easy on the eyes--or the mind. The drawings involve strange jumblings of serene and ...

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