It’s National Marijuana Day or better known as 4/20. What other day gets its own day and minute? To celebrate, we’re looking at artwork that either incorporates the plant like Ben Charles Weiner’s Marijuana Drawing which he soaked in a marijuana solution, to Andrei Koschmieder’s Untitled, which turned heads at Art Basel a few years back.(Top image, Andrei Koschmieder, Untitled (2015), courtesy of Real Fine Arts (Brooklyn)
Taryn Simon, Research Marijuana Crop Grow Room National Center for Natural Products Research Oxford, Mississippi, 2005-2007
Archival inkjet print 37 1/4 × 44 3/4 in, 94.6 × 113.7 cm, Edition of 7, Courtesy of Gagosian
ShihFen Liu, 12 Disciples- Marijuana, 2007
From the series 12 Disciples, Colour pencil, Laser print, Digital image, 9 2/5 × 7 9/10 in, 24 × 20 cm, courtesy of the Asia University Museum of Modern Art
Tony Mattelli, Weed, 2017
Painted bronze, 25 x 11 x 9″, courtesy of the artist
Ben Charles Weiner, Marijuana Drawing #1, 2014
Ink on chromatography paper soaked in Marijuana solution 22 × 18 in, 55.9 × 45.7 cm, photo courtesy of artsy
