Table with Pink Tablecloth 1965:Richard Artswager:Melamine laminate on plywood :26 1/8 x 31 7/8 x 31 7/8 in:66.4 x 81 x 81 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc. 66.48. © Richard Artschwager. Photo credit: © 2000 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photograph by Steven Sloman

The piece Table with Pink Tablecloth explores ideas of conceptual art through form and material. The untouchable sculpture creates a sort of disconnect with the piece and raises questions about the concept of why a non function table creates fuctionality or therefore lack of within the installation.

Description of Table 1964:Richard Artschwager:Formica on plywood. 26 1/8 x 31 7/8 x 31 7/8 in. (66.4 x 81 x 81 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc. 66.48. © Richard Artschwager. Photo credit: © 2000 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photograph by Steven Sloman.

Description of Table was one of Artschwagers most infamous pieces. Dealing with notions of conceptual art the piece explores the materials in which create it by provoking thoughts and ideas about how the material reflects itself through the illusion of the table.

Table and Chair 1963–4:Richard Artschwager:Melamine and wood: 755 x 1320 x 952 mm: 1143 x 438 x 533 mm:TatePurchased 1983

Artschwagers work is neither functional nor realistically representational objects of furniture.He enjoys the exploration of depicting form and space through illusionistic elements of three-dimensional objects.  

Locations,1969:Richard Artschwager:Melamine laminate, glass mirror, acrylic sheet, rubber, and wood:Dimensions variable:84/90:Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Purchase, with funds from The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc.Rights and Reproductions Information© artist or artist’s estate

Locations 1969 was an exploration of varying materials of blps. A blps is a lozenge shaped object placed in random locations to provoke thought process about the work around the minimalistic structure of the blp.

100 locations, 1968: Richard Artschwager

100 Locations is another form of the blp art. a minimalistic lozenge as an example of the potentiality that a blp could have in a location.

Book, 1987:Formica on wood: 12 × 20 1/16 × 5 1/16 in. (30.5 × 51 × 12.9 cm:25/40:Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Promised gift of Emily Fisher LandauAccession numberP.2010.20Rights and Reproductions Information© artist or artist’s estate

Book 1987 Was a later rendition of book 1964. This book however explores aspects of conceptual art as opposed to minimalism.

Chair/Chair 1987-9:Richard Artschwager:Red oak, formica, cowhide and painted steel:39 x 40 x 52 in. / 99 x 101.6 x 132.1 cm.Edition of 100

Chair/Chair is an exploration of materials and design concepts.

“To make art, artists are like thieves, watching for a door left open. At the beginning of the 1960’s, I painted a chair on a chair. I painted a chest of drawers on a chest of drawers. A hopeless entanglement of painting and sculpture. Is that what I was looking for? Minimal Art, Pop Art…artists learn from other artists but desperately want their art to be unique…but the categories happen. The sense that there is such a thing as sets is at least 50,000 years old. But in your time and when it comes to art, the encounter should be naked, naïve and free of prejudgment (such as classification). My originality, if any, lies in good part in paradoxes: useful/useless, object/image, etc.”
Richard Artschwager

Piano,2011:Richard Artschwager:laminate on plywood:35 × 79 × 47 ^7/8 in:88.9 × 200.7 × 121.6 cm© Richard Artschwager. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

Piano,2011 is a continuation of the exploration of conceptual artwork of Artschwagers idealologies.

Piano Grande, 2012:Richard Artschwager:laminate on wood, 46 x 79 1/2 x 35 inches (116.8 x 201.9 x 88.9 cm).

Exclamation Point (Black), 2012:Richard Artschwager:plastic bristles, mahogany, and late:65 × 22 × 22 in:65.1 × 55.9 × 55.9 cm:© Richard Artschwager. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

Splatter Chair, 1992:Enamel on wood and formica, Overall 53 x 42 1/8 x 38 3/4″ (134.6 x 106.9 x 98.4 cm). Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. © 2009 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York