black and white photographs on Plexiglas, in 28 parts
Rhode's multi-part work unfolds across 28 black and white photographs mounted on Plexiglas, capturing his signature performative drawing practice in sequential, cinematic fragments. The translucent Plexiglas support adds a luminous, suspended quality to the images, allowing light to pass through and animate the frozen moments of action. Together, the panels read like a storyboard or filmstrip, tracing the arc of a gestural narrative across time and space.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
November 14, 2014
Artists in conversation
Duane Michals
American · b. 1932
Michals pioneered sequential black and white photography arranged in narrative series that unfold like filmstrips, mirroring Rhode's cinematic multi panel approach to capturing gestural and performative action across time.
William Kentridge
South African · b. 1955
Kentridge shares Rhode's South African context and his practice of combining drawing with performance and animation into sequential works that trace the arc of a gesture or narrative, resulting in similarly fragmented and cinematic black and white visual storytelling.
Eadweard Muybridge
British · b. 1830
Muybridge's sequential black and white photographic studies of motion across multiple frames directly anticipate Rhode's storyboard like decomposition of performative action into frozen cinematic fragments mounted together.
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