This Mary
Corse painting so subtle and reflective it is nearly impossible to capture it in a photograph.
In addition, a Mary
Corse painting from 2000 realized $ 81,250, setting a world auction record for the artist.
Not exact matches
Unlike
Corse, whose
paintings capture the serene glow of light, Ward's works focus on the emotions embedded in contemporary everyday objects, particularly those found on city streets.
Commenting on her works in an interview from 2012,
Corse noted: «For me
painting has never been about the
paint, but what the
painting does.
Los Angeles - based artist Mary
Corse creates minimalist
paintings, and is associated with the Light and Space movement that emerged in Southern California in the 1960s.
From the distorted images shown in the mirrors, visitors catch a glimpse of Mary
Corse's
painting behind them across the gallery space.
Lehmann Maupin 536 W. 22nd St., (212) 255-2923 Through June 13 Mary
Corse (b. 1945) was one of the few women involved in the 1960s - and - on Southern California art movement called «Light & Space,» which typically featured ultra-minimal architectural environments instead of more conventional art objects such as
paintings and sculptures.
Compelled to bring the subjective back into her work,
Corse re-embraced the paintbrush and focused further on light, incorporating unconventional materials into her
paintings to investigate the subtle differences in surface treatment.
From lightboxes to
painting embedded with materials that refract light,
Corse combines a philosophical quest for the portrayal of the infinite with a highly skilled methodical and scientific rigour.
Nam June Paik goes to town for Gagosian, while Mary
Corse with Kayne Griffin Corcoran flattens Josef Albers by aligning her mammoth rectangles with a
painting's edge.
Obsessively engaging with light and perception,
Corse's
paintings embody rather than merely represent light, experimenting with the concept of subjective experience in new and innovative ways.
A selection of a new series of
paintings, The DNA Series, is a return to the black acrylic squares
Corse began exploring in the early 1970s.
Mary
Corse (b. 1945) earned acclaim in the 1960s for producing pieces ranging from shaped - canvas
paintings to ingenious light works.
Painting - represented by Wheeler, Bell, Irwin and Mary
Corse - plays a minor but irreplaceable role in «Phenomenal» as a sort of mediator between the East and West Coast impulses that informed minimalist sensibility across a generation at the turn of the»70s.
Lehmann Maupin has gathered primarily new works by three Californian women spanning two generations, making for a booth featuring monochromatic
paintings by the Light & Space Movement artist Mary
Corse, labor - and identity - focused sculptures from Liza Lou, and a spread of photographs examining American life and landscape by Catherine Opie.
Corse's new
paintings are a surfeit of white.
Now
Corse offers not just
painting and theater, but displacement.
First gaining recognition in the mid-1960s,
Corse is widely recognised for her innovative
painting technique using materials which both capture and
The properties of glass are explored in Larry Bell's glass cubes and in
paintings by Mary
Corse which are embedded with tiny glass microbeads.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s,
Corse briefly switched her production to large
paintings with heavy slabs in dark clay, but soon returned to
painting and incorporating microspheres into the medium.
three of
Corse's shimmering
paintings were reserved by museums and all other pieces in Kayne Griffin Corcoran's booth were sold
Mary
Corse is associated with the 1960s Light & Space Movement, and is primarily known for her minimalist, monochromatic
paintings, which explore...
In 1963 Mary
Corse received a BFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied psychology, and in 1968 an MFA from the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, where she studied
painting, philosophy, and Tibetan Buddhism.
The presentation include a selection from
Corse's «White Black White» and «White Inner Band»
painting series, and a lightbox composed of argon and Plexiglas.
Since the mid-1960s,
Corse has developed an innovative technique that involves mixing acrylic
paint with tiny glass beads commonly used in the white lines of lane dividers on highways and
painting vertical bands onto the canvas.
Deborah Barlow posts about the
paintings on view at the multi-venue art exhibition Pacific Standard Time, including
paintings by Ed Moses, John Altoon, Lee Mullican, Mary
Corse, Richard Diebenkorn, Ronald Davis, and Sam Francis.
Lehmann Maupin had work by Mary
Corse for sale for between $ 100,000 and $ 135,000,
paintings that had a kind of barely - there minimalist sheen.
While light is a major theme of her work,
Corse's
paintings embody light rather than merely representing it.
9/2/16 Mary
Corse: The Ace Gallery team recently joined Mary
Corse to install a forty - two foot
painting at the Los Angeles Federal Courthouse.
Because of their capacity for transformation, The White Light
paintings reflect
Corse's interest in the personal and subjective nature of perception.
Corse's work has been featured in several historically significant exhibitions including Venice in Venice, a collateral exhibition created by Nyehaus in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011); Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A.
Painting and Sculpture, 1950 - 1970 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and Martin - Gropius - Bau, Berlin, Germany, 2011); Phenomenal: California Light and Space (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2011).
A Mary
Corse prismatic
painting realized $ 87,500, setting a new auction record for the artist, breaking the previous world auction record also set by LAMA.
As a dedicated champion of California artists, LAMA is especially proud to have established new world auction records for Southern California modernists: Mary
Corse's Copper - Four Crosses (1979) realized $ 100,000, a John Lautner floor lamp (1939) brought $ 43,750 (Lot 96), and a James Gill
painting from 1968, when the artist worked in Los Angeles, achieved $ 22,500.
Mary
Corse's large white - on - white glass canvases have glass micro-beads embedded in the acrylic
paint to create a surface that shifts dramatically with the light.
In the mid-1960s, Mary
Corse developed an interest in white monochrome
paintings.
Corse treats light as a subject and material of her
paintings, activating them by using refractive glass microspheres that are common in highway
paint.
Mary
Corse (b. 1945) was one of the few women involved in the 1960s - and - on Southern California art movement called «Light & Space,» which typically featured ultra-minimal architectural environments instead of more conventional art objects such as
paintings and sculptures.
Smarts, Serious Fun in
Painting Exhibitions By Peter Plagens Mary
Corse Lehmann Maupin 536 W. 22nd St., (212) 255-2923 Through June 13
The presentation will include a selection from
Corse's White Black White and White Inner Band
painting series, alongside a new lightbox - with works spanning from 2003 to 2018.
While Turrell's work is more well - known — and also higher - priced —
Corse's
paintings stood out as an exciting new find for some fair visitors, as well as a good buy.
In this battle of establishing the superiority of one's signature style, Mary
Corse has made
paintings that resolve a multitude of pictorial conundrums.
The second artist, James Turrell, is announced by a pink glow that emanates from behind the wall that supports
Corse's
painting.
Based in Los Angeles,
Corse has built a practice that occupies an independent space at the intersection of minimalist
painting,
Mary
Corse's minimalist
paintings are created by incorporating reflective glass microspheres, a process she has developed over the last five decades.
By blending this unorthodox material with various shades of white acrylic
paint,
Corse has created scores of austere canvases that respond to changing light conditions and the viewer's movements.
The New Yorker March 12, 2012 Goings on About Town: Art Mary
Corse By The New Yorker Seen from one angle, these big, off - white
paintings look smooth enough to skate on.
New Yorkers can see
Corse's work at the Guggenheim Museum, where one of her early canvases appeared in «Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome» [closes today] or visit the Lehmann Maupin Gallery in Chelsea to bask in the quiet glow of her newest
paintings [on view through March 10].
Best known for her white
paintings,
Corse's application of the
paint emphasizes the multi-chromatic visual effect created in the contrast between the glass beads and her textural brushwork.
Bellamy, an unconventional dealer who had helmed the short - lived Green Gallery in Midtown Manhattan before starting a number of other projects, fell for
Corse's
paintings.
Corse, who is sixty - seven and based in L.A., is more interested in the mechanics of perception than she is in
painting per se.