Representative work by Channa Horwitz
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Artist

Channa Horwitz

1932–2013 · American · Based in Los Angeles, California, USA

  • BFA, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts, 1972)
  • Art Center College of Design
  • Algorithmic Drawing
  • Plotted Graphic Scores
  • Sonakinatography
  • Performance

Channa Horwitz developed a visual language based on grids, the number eight and repeated units of time. Her drawings and notations translate movement, rhythm and duration into precise graphic systems.

Drawing; painting; performance notation

Gallery Representation

Major Works

  • 1968Sonakinatography I Movement #1
  • 1968 onwardSonakinatography series
  • 1964 onwardLanguage Series
  • 1970sOrange Grid drawings
  • 1970sCircle and Square Works
  • 1970sVariations and Inversions on a Rhythm
  • 1970sTime Structure Works
  • 1960s–70sPerformance Scores
  • 1960s–2010s8-based Grid Works
  • 1960s–2010sGraph Paper Drawings

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Interviews & Writing

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