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An abstract picture, by definition, refers to no reality but its own. But lately several abstract painters have begun to create works that utilize one of the most venerable conventions of representative painting-perspective. Though the impressionists made light of it, the cubists deliberately flouted it, and abstract expressionists ignored...
Mid-Air. Los Angeles' Ron Davis maintains that his 4-in.-thick slabs of tutti-frutti-colored fiber glass, cast in glossy, translucent and sometimes opalescent layers, are meant to be "about" nothing but "what colors are and where you put them." If a visitor suggests that Davis'...
"I want the logic of color," says the artist, "to be the structure of my paintings, to open them up, to make them expand and breathe. I want my paintings to come out of color and not drawing. I just roll out the canvas and begin and let it grow...
How about a trip that will dissolve the floors of memory and identity, becloud the boundaries separating reality and illusion, return the traveler momentarily to his primal, psychic self-all without benefit of hallucinogens? Such was the offer being made last week by Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Gallery...
Last stop, but a favorite of many, was Stanley Landsman's Infinity Chamber, in which 6,000 tiny lights on the black, mirrored walls were reflected to create what seemed like an infinity of mirrors. The illusion of airy weightless ness thus engendered permitted viewers, in the words of...