Minimal beauty! a great architectual translation of Ellsworth Kelly's "Black over White".The gallerist, Mattew Mark recently commissioned Ellsworth Kelly to design something for the facard of his new West Hollywood gallery. The 88 year old artist reached back to his 1966 painting, "Black over White" for the solution. Kelly considered hanging one of his signature curved or rectangual sculptures, but decided to keep the piece simple and referential. I love minimal painting with such reference to the world, room, building, life or any form of the quotidian.
Think about process: black over white applied to red over green under blue or any combination of color, lack of color, texture or tranlucent application. The most ephemeral art can have application in the concrete world or vice versa. I have a model booked for Tues. 11 at deCordova Supercharged and all day Wed. the 12th at Newart Center. I am doing another talk/discussion this tues. the 4th at Newton JCC at 1:30: "Isolation as an Art Strategy: the work of Michael Heizer, Bas Jan Ader and Ray Johnson. See you next week, john.
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