“‘Thek’ was written after seeing the Paul Thek retrospective at the Whitney Museum a few years back. What was striking, among so much else in the show, were his uses of ephemeral material (newspaper, chalk, sand), as if to stage the work’s impermanence, the fact that all things will degrade, some faster than others. And this corruptibility is something I love about Thek. How it gets back to the body, grinding against the materialism of Warhol/Pop as well as the Neo-Platonism of postminimal and conceptual practices. Thek’s work I consider ethical in this regard.”

—Thom Donovan