- Artist or Maker
- Helen Pashgian
United States, California, Pasadena, born 1934 - Title
- Untitled (Wall Sculpture)
- Date Made
- 2005
- Medium
- Formed acrylic
- Dimensions
- 60 × 40 × 8 7/8 in. (152.4 × 101.6 × 22.54 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2019.228.2
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Curatorial Notes
Throughout her career, Helen Pashgian has made sculpture out of various plastics and resins. She is one of a group of Southern California artists—known as Light and Space artists—who have created works investigating perceptual phenomena: how we come to understand form, volume, presence and absence through light, seen directly through other materials, reflected, or refracted. Pashgian used frosted sheet acrylic (often known by the brand name Plexiglas) to create Untitled (Wall Sculpture). One senses an ocean-like depth in this work at the same time that one’s vision feels mysteriously occluded; the internal forms likewise are simultaneously legible yet enigmatic.