Mark Grotjahn: Untitled (Captain America) Foggy Notion Books including a series of large-scale

including a series of large-scale paintings that use sourced vintage black-and-white photographs of his birthplace

and archival photographs of the artist traveling

which for him represents the ultimate variable

landscapes

colorless print defines precise perspectival lines and surface details in relief

Mark Grotjahn: Untitled (Captain America) Foggy Notion Books including a series of large-scaleThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Mark Grotjahn: Untitled (Captain America) at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, featuring the large scale, ten part drawing Untitled (Captain America) (200809). With its centrifugal radiant motif, the work synthesizes the comic book hero Captain Americaa patriotic super soldier fighting the Axis powers during World War IIinto pure, vibrating lines of force in symbolic red, white, and blue.