OBS-ART-171

Allan McCollum — Surrogates

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Surface as Slip

OBS-ART-171

Material Presence

Atlas Index:

Origin:

Era:

1980s-present

Themes / Lineage:

conceptual art, seriality, systems

Field Notes:

Repetition displaces identity. Units accumulate without emphasis. Surface becomes system.

Quiet Modernism appears here as subtle instability held within continuity.

Surface as Slip

Allan McCollum — Surrogates

Surface shifts subtly.

Alignment loosens.

Stability remains provisional.

Structural Concepts

Material Presence

Material asserts physical presence through density, texture, and load.

Reoccurrence that turns single decisions into pattern.

A set of rules or operations generating structure.

The structural connection between separate elements.

Artist Overview

multiplicity as structure

In Dialogue

image as instability