Five paintings structured after works by Kandinsky and Malevich — McElheny's Crystalline Prism Painting I, II, III, IV, and VI — feature press - molded and
polished glass prisms inset into a field of black, matte oil paint brushstrokes, visible behind or through a surface made of a sheet of «museum glass».
Not exact matches
The house itself is halfway between
prism and prison: a great
glass maze of boxes within boxes, each
polished panel throwing up refractions and inversions that suggest there's more afoot here than a simple tech demo.
Within three large monochromatic works — Blue
Prism Painting V, VI and VII — one sees arrangements of solid, cut and
polished blue
glass forms, each form creating an ellipse at its apex.