John Torreano
Tears and Squares, 1991
Acrylic and charcoal on paper
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the artist
2017.28.002

Item description: A charcoal drawing depicting four prisms of different sizes on a blank surface. Centered in the foreground is a teardrop-shaped prism; formed with a pointed top and a rounded base. Two prisms reside directly behind it: another teardrop-shaped prism to its right and the other shaped roughly like a house with a tilting roof to its left. The final prism is long and pointy, looming directly above the third prism in the top right corner of the drawing while seeming furthest behind spatially.