The sentence "work is absent" is correct and usable in written English
You can use this phrase in a variety of contexts to describe a situation in which something is or should be present, but is not. For example, you could say "My boss was unhappy to see that productivity was absent from the office today."
Iagnemma evokes time and place with illuminating detail, but the intellectual insight of his earlier work is absent.
What makes this show especially interesting is that much of Mr. Prince's early work is absent from published accounts of his evolution as an artist.
It provided an inspiring cultural backdrop for the artists who worked in the South Bronx in the 1980's, including John Ahearn and Tim Rollins and K.O.S., whose work is absent here.
By J. Max Horine The New Yorker, November 14 , 1925P. 35 The business girl who asserts sex equality in work is absent every other day because the dance the night before left her too fatigued for work.
Unlike Duchamp who was easily recognizable (and his private life was subject of gossip), little is known about On Kawara's personal life, and even his work is absent of personal mark-making, using a an ink stamp and telegraphic text rather than pen or pencil to scribe to his correspondents.
At Salon, Alex Seitz-Wald notes that most of Giglio's current work is absent of any talk about gay people, though in one book, "Wired: For a Life of Worship," Giglio writes that teenagers are "wired for the opposite sex, for sure".
Yet other trademarks of his previous work are absent.
The density and vaulting ambition that have characterized Mr. Marsalis's recent work are absent from "The Magic Hour".
Irresponsibility: repeated failure to fulfill or honor obligations and commitments; such as not paying bills, defaulting on loans, performing sloppy work, being absent or late to work, failing to honor contractual agreements.
It's agreeably tantalizing, too, to realize how many major Taylor works are absent from any one season.
The subversive (feminist) tensions of Ms. Rist's best works are absent here, but the work makes the brain so fuzzily relaxed you may not notice.
