Bas Dirks

Portrait sheet in blue chalk, drawn edge to edge: rubbed flat planes of mid-blue lying behind a scaffold of hard dark bars, angular boxes and spiked bursts, with loose cursive loops running along the top and bottom margins like lines of writing. Paper glows through the gaps.
No. 176Chalk on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm (11.7 × 16.5 in), 2026