Linda Vallejo Chooses Charles Gaines

Linda Vallejo Chooses Charles Gaines

Linda Vallejo Chooses Charles Gaines “The Brown Dot Project (TBDP),” a series of mine from 2015, has been deeply influenced by the renowned Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines, whose works investigate the way rules-based procedures construct order and meaning....
Josef Albers: Beyond Light and Shade

Josef Albers: Beyond Light and Shade

Josef Albers: Beyond Light and Shade By Mitchell Johnson Most of Josef Albers’s paintings are very unusual and far more complex than they initially appear; they are not about Op art, color theory, or Minimalism. They are about paying attention. Just as his famous book...
Frank Stella Meets Jasper Johns

Frank Stella Meets Jasper Johns

Frank Stella Meets Jasper Johns “The artist who launched Minimalism was Frank Stella (b. 1936), who was still a student at Princeton when he saw Jasper Johns’s 1958 show at Leo Castelli Gallery. He liked the repetition of the flags, so many stars, so many...