2017

Topo VI

Rebecca Rutstein

American, born 1971

Rebecca Rutstein’s work explores the intersections between art, science, and technology that emerge from her interest in geology and marine biology. In this drawing, repeated honeycomb-shaped forms are stretched and compressed to create a sense of depth on the two-dimensional sheet. This practice of depicting three-dimensionality through line recalls topographical drawings, which render the altitude of terrain, including that found on the seafloor, through contour lines.