Gerhard Richter at FLAG Art Foundation

To create the Rorschach-like image on this tapestry, German painter Gerhard Richter quartered and flipped a section from a 1990 abstract painting. At around nine feet tall and twelve feet wide, the complexity of its large surface boggles and its presence is both powerful and yet more ephemeral than the artist’s paintings. (At FLAG Art Foundation in Chelsea through May 13th).

Gerhard Richter, YUSUF, jacquard woven tapestry, 108 11/16 x 148 13/16 inches, 2009.