Harlem earth on paper, found suitcase
suitcase: 19 1/4 x 26 3/4 x 7 inches, drawing (framed): 119 1/2 x 48 7/8 x 1 5/8 inches

David Hammons continues to push artistic boundaries in groundbreaking work that references his unique position as a maverick black artist working within the upper echelons of the art world. In Untitled (Basketball Drawing), an ethereal, cloud-like nebula of smoky grey graphite on paper towers over the viewer at nearly ten-feet tall. Made by repeatedly bouncing a regulation NBA basketball coated in graphite and dirt against a sheet of paper, Untitled (Basketball Drawing) is all-encompassing in its atmospheric lushness and monumental scale.