Thomas Downing
Latitude, 1967
acrylic on shaped canvas
124 x 79 inches
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”Like many of his contemporaries, Downing abandoned figurative representation to explore the expressive power of color, applying it across large canvases to see how different colors relate to one another and emphasize the canvases flat surfaces.
Using thin acrylic paint, Piffaretti builds an abstract composition of flat, loose shapes on one side of the line and then re-creates the same composition on the other side of the dividing line. One effect of redoing the composition is to cut off any subjective efforts due to the painting’s form, style or color. The doubling process demystifies painting and renders useless as an emblem of self hood.
Bernard Piffaretti
Untitled (BP-01), 2015
acrylic on canvas
70 3/4 x 70 3/4 inches
With the invention of the steel drawings, Wesselmann was able to magnify his intimate sketches to a monumental size yet maintain the free and spontaneous quality of drawings.
Tom Wesselmann
Monica in Robe with Matisse, 1986-98
alkyd oil on cut out steel
49 x 74 inches
Harland Miller
Tonight We Make History, 2018
etching with block printing
edition of 50
paper: 69 5/16 x 47 1/4 inches
frame: 72 3/8 x 50 5/8 inches
”In both his paintings and works on paper who subjects are fictitious Penguin book covers, Harland Miller regularly sets up the potential for narratives to allow for multiple readings in his dark sardonic humor.