X Series Maker: Todd Hoyer (American, born 1952)

1992

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study

In the early 1990s, Todd Hoyer began the X Series, a group of muscular and confrontational vessels with scorched ribs between broad grooves. Using a chainsaw, Hoyer slashed an X-shaped opening into the vessel and scorched the interior. The resulting cross can be read as both a graphic decoration and a symbolic cancelling out, as if to challenge conventions of beauty.

Medium

Arizona cedar

Dimensions

13 3/4 × 14 in. (34.93 × 35.56 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Collection of Ruth and David Waterbury, B.A. 1958

Accession Number

2007.171.1

Geography

Made in Bisbee, Arizona

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Barry Friedman Gallery, New York; sold to Ruth and David Waterbury, Minneapolis, 1997; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2007
Bibliography
  • Glenn Adamson et al., Conversations with Wood: Selections from the Waterbury Collection, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2011), 117, 239, no. 186, ill
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2007–June 30, 2008," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2008), 179
  • Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 113, pl. 103
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

vessels

Marks

"TH" conjoined incised and inked on underside

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