NYAB Event - Ronald Davis "Monochrome Painting From The 1960's"

Ronald Davis "Monochrome Painting From The 1960's"

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At Franklin Parrasch Gallery
Media: Painting

The first New York show of shaped, monochromatic paintings from 1965-66 by Ronald Davis– including four iconic examples that have not been on public view since the 1960's. In the fall on 1965 Ronald Davis introduced a series of eight geometrically shaped, richly painted monochromatic canvases at the newly opened Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles. Consisting of rectilinear forms (e.g. a rhomboid, a parallelogram etc.) this body of work presented an illusionistic spatial order while also projecting an even greater sense of depth than their 4" deep stretchers provided.

[Image: Ronald Davis "Big Orchid" (1965) 2 shaped panels, Liquatex Acrylic on Canvas, installation view 50 x 57 x 3 1/2 in.]