Hell

Leroy Almon Sr.

1988

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A large rectangular composition of overlapping, deconstructed football skins stitched together and resembling an abstract landscape in different earth tones with a splash of blue.
Abstract triptych
This painting in black ink on light-colored paper represents a rectangle--roughly the shape of the sheet of paper, painted just within its margins. The rectangle is painted in a thick line. At the top it has sharper corners, while the corners at the bottom are curved. The bottom edge of the rectangle also has a brushstroke protruding into the center of the shape, possibly where the artist concluded the a stroke.
A black and white photographic image of the tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin in Venice's Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo. A wall of sandbags are stacked against it for protection, reinforced at the base with pieces of timber, a pew and a small bench. The title of the print is rendered in letterpress in an old-style seraph typeface and spaced at between ¾-1" below the image, and centered.