Courtesy David Zwirner, New York

James Welling, "#015" (2005). C-print mounted to Plexiglas, 34 x 27 in.

Courtesy David Zwirner, New York

James Welling, "Torso 9-6" (2005-08). C-print, 46 x 34 in.

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JW: Night vision. The screens explore tactility — the sense of touch rather than sight. I think of them as bodies without intelligence or language — sensual bodies.  James Welling’s work is on view in "The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from Apr. 21-Aug. 2.

"Pencil of Nature" originally appeared in the April 2009 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' April 2009 Table of Contents.