#60-12 Soft White, Dome Series, 1969
acrylic on canvas over kapok, wood backing
48 1/2 x 48 1/2 x 4
#47-6 Light Gray, Dome Series, 1969
acrylic on canvas over kapok, wood backing
48 x 48 x 3 3/4 inches
#48-7 Soft Medium Gray, Dome Series, 1969
acrylic on canvas over kapok, wood backing
48 1/2 x 48 1/2 x 4 inches
#2 Hard Black Series, 1969
acrylic on canvas over kapok, wood backing
48 x 48 x 3
Los Banos, Diablo Mts Series, 2001
acrylic on canvas
22 x 30 inches
Detail.
Estero, Santa Lucia Series, 2003
acrylic on canvas
22 x 30 inches
Detail.
This show took me a moment because the first works in this show that I encountered (the ones near the bottom of this post) were oddly scaled for what they suggested. I would love to see them on a large scale, larger than Rothko.
It wasn't until I made it into the back gallery where four works (the ones at the start of this post), one on each wall, were hung in a kind of arrangement (an apparent kind of specificity) that pushed me around by their placement and simplicity. Robert Irwins' mid-sixties paintings just before his acrylic discs came to mind, and so I thought these ones existing in parallel with his was something worth thinking about.
Upon further reflection, in fact upon posting the images here, I came to think more so about Morgan Fisher. Of course, Mary Corse, in my mind, was everywhere in the rooms. Once such associations subsided, I was able to enjoy them for what they are in the present and how I was able to think back through the paintings as objects of place (cf. titles), placement, and displacement of their times.
