![Greg Otto 1980
“Otto’s work at this time was solely in pencil; thousands of minute, individual graphite marks worked up into dense, iridescent masses, or left as light, scattered flecks across the sheet. [—-] Some drawings are completely covered by thousands of tiny pencil marks with little of the paper showing through, which creates a calm uniformity of surface when viewed from a distance, but reveals a dense thicket of pencil lines when seen close-up. Others may have small and irregular light areas that appear to shine out of the graphite darkness, or edges that fade away like thinning clouds or smoke. Otto also created his drawings on a very large scale, producing similar abstract graphite works on primed canvases that measured up to eight by nine feet; works that are monumental in scale but still built up from the smallest of pencil marks.” (From the Francis Frost website http://www.francisfrost.com/ottomain.html)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0924c2X5S1qziek0o1_500.jpg)
Greg Otto 1980
“Otto’s work at this time was solely in pencil; thousands of minute, individual graphite marks worked up into dense, iridescent masses, or left as light, scattered flecks across the sheet. [—-] Some drawings are completely covered by thousands of tiny pencil marks with little of the paper showing through, which creates a calm uniformity of surface when viewed from a distance, but reveals a dense thicket of pencil lines when seen close-up. Others may have small and irregular light areas that appear to shine out of the graphite darkness, or edges that fade away like thinning clouds or smoke. Otto also created his drawings on a very large scale, producing similar abstract graphite works on primed canvases that measured up to eight by nine feet; works that are monumental in scale but still built up from the smallest of pencil marks.” (From the Francis Frost website http://www.francisfrost.com/ottomain.html)
