In between the stacked paintings edges, the viewer can discern the hint of a deep space, which suggests a sense of mystery.
Within these paintings, the edges of the apples on the table, or the edges of the casserole dish or of the jar, are like those creases, because they mark both an apparent separation and a real continuity.
Judd took over a decade to find his own concatenation, spending most of the 1950s making paintings while edging unwittingly into three dimensions.
An artist originally from Singapore who calls himself Yek makes paintings whose edges curl a bit, like paper in high humidity.
In the same building as the Sherman show at Skarstedt, one can also visit the Leon Kossoff works at Mitchell-Inness & Nash and a show of Sam Francis's elegantly spare "Edge" paintings from the mid-1960's at Richard Gray.
If Rossin's paintings skirt the edge of kitsch, they are saved by their own opacity.
Online, Christie's describes the subject's "burgeoning adolescent sexual awareness" as contributing to the paintings' "suggestively erotic edge," foregrounding the subject's youth and nascent sexuality as a source of intrigue, rather than evidence of exploitation. .
That is, until Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria shook things up with The Field a groundbreaking 1968 exhibition of local abstract and conceptual geometric hard edge paintings and sculptures.
That goes for the early 1960s orbs of expanding color in the "Blue Balls" works; the mid-'60s edge paintings, which apply lush color to just the framing edges of the canvas while leaving the central area a bright, somehow muscular and visually aggressive white; or, the incredibly complex 1970s grids, in which crisp linear structure somehow melds with oozing liquidity.
Toward this effect, performance artist Ei Arakawa and painter Shimon Minamikawa dangled two of Minamikawa's day-glo paintings over the edge of one of the picturesque Whitney outdoor terraces, several floors above the street, teasing visitors to come up the stairs and into the galleries.
