Though not strictly representational, some objects in Untitled (1962) are recognizable: a flower, an egg, a foot. The arrows and directional lines suggest movement, but the forms they point to intertwine, prohibiting a straightforward reading. The shapes are as illustrative as a Rorschach inkblot; in their confounding, simple indeterminacy, they depict nothing and everything at once.
Born in Berkeley and educated at California College of the Arts, John McCracken was a pioneer of American Minimalism and is often associated with the Light and Space movement. His plank pieces—high-gloss, lacquered, monochromatic monoliths that lean against the wall—defy the boundary between painting and sculpture, object and viewer. Their bases rest in the observer’s space, and their varnished surfaces reflect the surrounding environment. Though best known for his bright colors and polished aesthetic, McCracken’s body of work is diverse, ranging from minimalist sculpture to abstract painting. The work is consistently characterized by a search for simplicity, beauty, and the sublime.
Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s...
Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight...
Untitled (San Francisco) was made in Idaho in 1984 and was facetiously dedicated to Henry Hopkins, the then director of the San Francisco Museum of Art who added “modern” to its name...
In No Title (Blue Chapel) Therrien has reduced the image of a chapel to a polygon...
Uncertain Pilgrimage is an ongoing project in which Moore draws from his unplanned travels in recent years...
The artist describes the work as “very performative video-pieces but they take on a more sculptural feel...
MUM , the acronym used to title a series of Rogan’s small interventions on found magazines, stands for “Magic Unity Might,” the name of a vintage trade magic publication...
Uncertain Pilgrimage is an ongoing project in which Moore draws from his unplanned travels in recent years...
Glaze (Savana) (2005) is an assemblage of found materials: a car wheel, a tire, and a wooden plinth of the type traditionally used to display sculpture...
Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight...
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa’s performance Illusion of Matter establishes a dream state through a composition of motifs that were drawn from the artist’s childhood memories...
Tree on the Former Site of Camera Obscura (1996) belongs to a series of large-scale photographs of trees taken by Graham and depicts a particular species that lives in Northern California...
Ponderosa Pine IV belongs to a series of large-scale photographs of trees taken by Graham and depicts a particular species that live in Northern California...
Untitled (Construction) recalls the series of glass cubes that gained Bell international recognition in the 1960s...
Like many of Larry Bell’s works, VFGY9 deals primarily with the viewer’s experience of sight...