Juan Antonio Olivares

Untitled
2016–2017

A grayscale illustration of a surreal office scene with papers and objects floating in mid-air, featuring a desk with a lamp, a chair, and a filing cabinet in a room with shadows cast by unseen light sources. There is handwritten text at the bottom of the image.
A grayscale illustration of a surreal office scene with papers and objects floating in mid-air, featuring a desk with a lamp, a chair, and a filing cabinet in a room with shadows cast by unseen light sources. There is handwritten text at the bottom of the image.

Not on view

Date
2016–2017

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 12 1/2in. (19.1 × 31.8 cm)

Accession number
2018.148.7

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee, the Director’s Discretionary Fund, Greg S. Feldman, the O’Grady Foundation, and Shelley Sonenberg

Rights and reproductions
© Juan Antonio Olivares

API
artworks/58266

Part of a series:
3 works

A monochromatic artwork depicting a celestial scene with a large planet and its prominent ring system taking up the majority of the frame, accompanied by a smaller moon or satellite in the foreground. Stars dot the black background. The piece is framed with a white border, and there is handwritten text at the bottom that reads "another system of existence."
A grayscale illustration of a surreal office scene with papers and objects floating in mid-air, featuring a desk with a lamp, a chair, and a filing cabinet in a room with shadows cast by unseen light sources. There is handwritten text at the bottom of the image.
A pencil sketch of a window framed by heavy curtains, with a cloudy sky visible through the glass. Below the image, there is handwritten text that reads, "I know that she always loved me more."

Juan Antonio Olivares
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