Me

Larry Rivers described this work as “glimpses of everything that’s happened to me from birth to the present.” He used a collage-like process to create the massive painting, first tacking old photographs of himself and his family to a large board in his studio, and then drawing, smudging, and erasing its images from his canvas. The result is a series of partial memories and partial concealments—a collection of signs and symbols, dreamy myths and deliberate absences, that are akin to reading the artist’s autobiography.

71.2001