Paintings starting in 2012 build on small
squares of primary colors, with the brightness and opacity of acrylic, but they gain in intensity from orange and a paler blue as well.
Not exact matches
Their rarefied atmosphere is circumscribed by rigorously defined and scrupulously observed parameters: Levine paints only with
primary colors and white, each monochrome is contained by a razor - sharp border
of raw canvas, all
of the pictures are minimally off -
square.
These unique works apply a programmatic approach to exploring the archetypal building blocks
of an image — the circle,
square and cone; and the
primary colors — blue, red and yellow.
Since 1990, Levine has created groups
of closed - system paintings that embrace the following elements: off -
square painting supports
of modest scale and varying depths, small borders to amplify the paintings» complex surfaces, a variety
of media (oil, gouache, flashe), and a palette
of primary colors.
These abutted, black - bordered
squares filled with even bands
of primary and secondary
colors show how far LeWitt's wall work evolved in 3 1/2 decades.
The autobiographical dimension
of the artist's work is revealed in pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect is evident in paintings
of grids and
squares rendered in
primary colors and in works based on architectural planes.
pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect is evident in paintings
of grids and
squares rendered in
primary colors and in works based on architectural planes.
Next, it was clusters
of colored squares and rectangles, and finally it was stripped down to a black and white grid, supporting the three
primary colors.
The autobiographical dimension
of the artist's work is clear in her pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect
of her oeuvre is evident in her paintings
of grids and
squares rendered in
primary colors and in works based on architectural planes.
In her Tompkins
Square paintings, she continued her interest in tonal effects
of trees, foliage, and grey skies, sometimes streaked with sunlight breaking through the clouds, while at times introducing strong contrasts through
primary colors of stoplights, traffic markings, and other features
of urban life.