A bedsheet is a large piece of fabric that goes on top of your bed to cover the mattress. It is usually soft and smooth, and you sleep directly on it. Full definition
Following exhibitions and public installations by Urs Fischer and Sterling Ruby, its latest show (until Saturday September 2) focuses on the work of US - born Walter Robinson, featuring a series of bedsheets painted with the covers of paperback romance novels (a recurring theme for the artist), as well as several of his Romance paintings from 1986. (vitoschnabel.com)
His paintings on bedsheets recall several postwar and contemporary artists» use of similar materials, including Robert Rauschenberg «s Bed (1955), Tracey Emin «s My Bed (1988), and more recently, Rodney McMillian's impasto abstractions on bed linens. (vitoschnabel.com)
Athena Papadopoulos (b. 1988) Using cosmetic, medicinal, and edible ingredients, Athena Papadopoulos stains layers of cotton bedsheets with red wine, lipstick, hair dyes, Pepto Bismol, and self ¬ tanner. (whitechapelgallery.org)