Micheal Ogilvie
"Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series XVIII", 2005
Pencil, ink, acrylic
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the Artist
2016.02.018

Image description:
A drawing that features a distorted four-limbed animal drawn with a spiky black outline. This animal is repeated six times across the picture. In different iterations it seems to be shouting with an open mouth, throwing out its forepaws like hands, lying on its back with its legs stiffly in the air, grinning while the end of its snout becomes square, smiling happily, and finally disintegrating into a corpse. Nothing in the drawing is shaded aside from this animal’s open mouth, with a meticulous grayscale detailing its uvula, tongue, and palate. The smooth lines of a cartoony handgun on the lower right form a contrast with the jagged outlines of the animal (written by Andrea Noonoo).