Ace Gallery Los Angeles
On view Mary Corse White Light/Inner Band paintings at Lehmann Maupin in New York and Ace Gallery in Los Angeles. From coast to coast experience the interaction of light and stillness on canvas as Aldous Huxley once exalted Suchness in all its heavenly beauty.
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The Innocent Eye Test, Mark Tansey, 1981; oil on canvas 120" x 78"
Partial and Promised Gift of Jan Cowles and Charles Cowles, in honor of William S. Lieberman (10% undivided interest, 2005; and 20% undivided interest, 2004) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1988 (sources: Metropolitan Museum of Art accessions, annual reports, 2004 & 2005)
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Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser, Jack Hanley Gallery
Son of SAAB
Son of Saab sprang to life at Independent, the contemporary art fair staged last week at the former Dia art museum in Chelsea.
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White Flag, Jasper Johns, 1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art Encaustic oil, newsprint and charcoal on canvas, 78 5/16 x 120 3/4 in.
What It Is
Circa 1963-64, G.R. Swenson interviewed Jasper Johns for ARTnews magazine.
On the subject of objectivity the artist responded:
My paintings are not simply expressive gestures. Some of them I have thought of as facts...
I am concerned with a thing’s not being what it was, with its becoming something other than what it is, with any moment in which one identifies a thing precisely and with the slipping away of that moment, with at any moment seeing or saying and letting it go at that...
... What it is—subject matter, then—is simply determined by what you’re willing to say it is. What it means is simply a question of what you’re willing to let it do.
What it is remains what it is.
What it is is also an embrace, an understanding of what it is.
And that's the way it is, to coin an old phrase.
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