“Industrial topiary. An enclosing wall, a jutting ledge, a dark fibrous recess that only the hand can enter: the impact of the uncanny makes this box a surrealist object for the modern age.”  ______Parkett

Richard Artschwager (1923-2013) was an American artist whose work defied categorization. Artschwager specialized in making the visual comprehension of space and the everyday objects that occupy it strangely unfamiliar and he excelled in causing pictorial and textual confusion through a series of stylistic hybrids such as those in his "blps" series.