The
appearance of the substance is not separate from its actual identity: it is the substance in action, in relation to its environment, changing and adapting to it but
only insofar as its
formal unity, given in its relationships, permits.
Indeed, his art so rarely makes an
appearance in
formal institutions that when it does it is treated as an event, like his retrospective in 2016 at Mnuchin Gallery on the Upper East Side,
only the second time his work has been organized into a career survey.