No More Dry-Runs

2008

Kim Rugg

Associated Names
Kim Rugg

Artist, Canadian, born 1963

The image contains a variety of shapes and lines composed primarily of letters and numbers arranged across sections resembling a newspaper page. The composition integrates a mosaic of text blocks with multicolored pixel-like designs. This design resembles a digital data visualization or crossword puzzle grid, drawing connections to familiar objects such as a newspaper or informational graphic. Columns of type and typography interspersed with colorful abstract art create an intricate display of form and text.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    cut-and-rearranged newspaper (Financial Times, August 8, 2008)

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Collectors Committee

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 60.01 × 37.47 cm (23 5/8 × 14 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.32.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Mark Moore Gallery, CA); purchased by NGA, 2009

Associated Names

Bibliography

1939

  • Watson, Forbes. "My Country 'Tis of Thee." Magazine of Art, 32, no. 6 (June 1939): 324, repro. 334.

2012

  • Brodie, Judith, et al., Shock of the News. Exh. cat., Washington, DC, 2012: 88, no. 61.

Inscriptions

center right with cut out letters: Kim Rugg 2008

Wikidata ID

Q64592566