Richard McGuire

The book documents in rich illustrations the street collages, band posters, and record ephemera McGuire made during this period, including exhibition checklists and black-and-white photographs of his wheat pasted drawings installed across the city. One such photograph shows a black silhouette against a wall filled with advertisements, like a shadow in a doorway. The figure stands out against the chaos, framed in a rectangle of negative space, with the text "FASTER AND MORE WILDLY" around the edges in scratchy letters. In another photograph the figure appears again, this time larger and enclosed by the words "THINGS ARE BOOMERANGING." The figure is Ixnae Nix, created by McGuire in the late 1970s, and these are just some of the texts associated with more than seventy-five such drawings. Luc Sante, who wrote the introduction to Sequential Drawings, suggests in the catalogue's forward that, "Taken together, the Ixnae Nix drawings might represent something like a subjective diary, one that passersby can identify with."--Brooklynrail.org.