Mock-Up (from Constructed paintings)
Allan McCollum's *Mock-Up (from Constructed Paintings)* is a meticulously crafted work in which grease pencil, silicone adhesive, and canvas are combined to explore themes of reproduction, seriality, and the conventions of painting as an object. The work belongs to McCollum's broader investigation into how art is framed, displayed, and perceived within systems of mass production and institutional context. By foregrounding the physical materials and construction of the painted surface itself, McCollum challenges the viewer to reconsider notions of originality and authenticity in contemporary art.
- Medium
- grease pencil, silicone adhesive and canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
New Now Day Sale
February 29, 2016
Artists in conversation
Robert Ryman
American · b. 1930
Ryman shared McCollum's obsessive focus on the physical construction of painting as an object, using monochrome white surfaces to interrogate the materiality of canvas, support, and fastening systems rather than representational content.
Sherrie Levine
American · b. 1947
Levine engages with seriality, institutional critique, and the conceptual framing of art objects, producing geometrically spare works that question authenticity and reproduction within the same systems of display that McCollum interrogates.
Peter Halley
American · b. 1953
Halley creates conceptually driven geometric and monochromatic paintings that examine the constructed nature of abstract conventions, sharing McCollum's interest in how painting functions as a coded object within social and institutional frameworks.
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