Exhibiting the
paintings of Davis and Tadasky together provides an opportunity to compare working
methods, goals, and achievements of two artists from different art circles of the 1960s who both worked exclusively with the stripe (vertical and circular) as a
compositional device.
Frize's project is, simply stated, one of reducing
painting to its most fundamental elements, of using structure and system to govern and regulate the
compositional process and thus absolve the artist from the decision making process, so that there is nothing more to the work than its physical, even technological,
method of production.