Table of Contents (detail)
Table of Contents (detail)
John McQueen
2004
Materials
Willow, plastic ties, waxed string, wood, acrylic paint, chalk, and pencil
Size
45 x 573 x 45 inches
Racine Art Museum, Gift of Sara and David Lieberman
About the artwork.
Over his career, John McQueen has explored basketry traditions from the perspective of someone trained in contemporary sculpture. McQueen would weave letters, words, and images into the form and content of his works, as well as incorporate the imperfections of natural materials. He pushed the scale and scope of his sculpture, referencing life-size figures and installation-size works. Table of Contents is a multi-part installation of 172 willow twig “images” of household objects organized on a 48-foot-long scaffolding system.