Blythe Bohnen (born 1940) is an American artist known for her minimalistic graphite drawings and photographs that represent aspects of motion.
Gallery, established in New York City in 1972, the first not-for-profit, cooperative exhibition space for women in the United States.
[3] Bohnen's work is generally conceptual in nature, often in the form of self-portraits that capture the motions of her body.
[4] Her drawings feature a grid format that she used to arrange the severely limited and carefully executed motions of her hand that she captured in the graphite, resulting in monochromatic drawings that assert their reality as markings on paper instead of an illusion of something else, as seen in Motion Touching Five Points with Graphite Stick (1973), One Motion with Graphite Stick, Horizontal and Vertical (1974), and Motion Touching Five Points (1975; Art Institute of Chicago).
David Hall Gallery, Wellesley, Massachusetts 2023, ISBN 978-1-7355143-0-7, 168 pages, with essays by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Suzanne Hudson, Anna Lovatt, Karen Irvine, David Mather.