With the latter in mind, the largest installation in Hot Topics is entitled Your Performance and consists of seven multi-coloured pool noodles covered with
vertical bands taken from tracksuits or sportswear items bearing the famous three stripes of Adidas.
Not exact matches
The color studies
take varied forms from
vertical bands to biomorphic pours on paper.
By
taking a square and dividing it this way, Whitney establishes a tension between the container and its interior, which he further heightens by filling the
bands edge to edge with endearingly painted, almost lopsided
vertical or horizontal rectangles, each a single color, that shift in scale and number of rectangles from one
band to another.
His
vertical band paintings and zigzagged geometric structures
took colour field painting in a purer, more geometric and more rigorous direction, but one that nonetheless remained intrinsically linked to the perceptual experience.
What many previous emergent - constraint studies have done is to
take such a
band of observations and project it onto the
vertical ECS axis using the estimated regression line between ECS and the natural fluctuations,
taking into account uncertainties in the estimated regression model.