Referencing the history of painting — especially action painting and abstract expressionism — and drawing
on feminism and performance art, Black proposes an expanded idea of sculpture as primarily an intuitive and sensory encounter with
pure materiality.
Rather than rejecting recognizable visual references and objective reality, Minimalist artists like Judd, Sol LeWitt, Anne Truitt and Frank Stella focused
on form, the use of vibrant and
pure color, hard - edged line, minimal texture and modern
materiality.