Y, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Collage is a photogravure and aquatint

is a photogravure and aquatint in colors on Somerset paper from an edition of 25

Helen Frankenthaler's "What Red Lines Can Do" (Harrison 25)

direct visuals

This portfolio represents Shrigley's exploration of language and absurdist humor

The work's composition plays with ideas of visibility and invisibility

Y, from Hockney's Alphabet, 1991 Collage is a photogravure and aquatintDavid Hockney's letter Y comes from Hockney's Alphabet, the 1991 portfolio in which the artist reimagined all twenty six letters as full page colour lithographs. A Y is reserved in green from a solid yellow rectangle set on a field of dark dashes a crisp, poster like play of figure and ground in which the letter is the gap rather than the mark. Hockney's Alphabet was conceived by the poet Sir Stephen Spender and published in 1991 to raise funds for