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ovoid Botany (of a fruit or similar part) egg-shaped with the broader end at the base How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Yet over the last decade, she has increasingly shifted from three-dimensional, floor-based work--minimalist geometric forms suggestive of both honeycombed organic structures and the mathematical proliferations of Islamic decorative motifs--toward two-dimensional wall-based pieces whose light touch and indeterminate surfaces can evoke the subtle opticality of Robert Irwin's early ovoids. In a drawing from 1964, concentric ovoids emerge fantastically from a soot-blackened background--the forms recalling an enormous relief Bontecou made for the lobby of the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. |
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