A monumental monochromatic field
of subdued color fulfills the role
of straight - man to Prince's comic texts, sometimes presented plain and direct, sometime
articulated in ghostly printed letters that seem to wax and wane in intensity across the canvas, and in the case
of Untitled (Check
Painting) # 13, text that has a material
quality —
painted over literal paper checks embedded into the canvas surface.
Not everything a renowned artist
paints is necessarily good, I don't feel the
quality of these works matches up to Charley Peters» fine,
articulate writing in any way.