Several of Monet's serial pictures (haystacks, a seascape, the Rouen cathedral) fill the next room, which opens out into another filled with Mr. Robinson's serial paintings.
WRITING in the exhibition brochure, Jessica Hough, curatorial director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, reflected on the atmospheric, slightly repetitive quality of Todd Hebert's serial paintings on display in a downstairs gallery.
They lead past Ann Craven's serial paintings of a full moon to a room where Sarah Lucas's Pepto-Bismol-pink cast-rubber tree trunks with phallic tops stand tall before paintings made from curling posters that Klara Liden ripped off city walls.
At the Factory, even the drugs were work-oriented, everyone buzzing about on amphetamine.' The images he created for Uncommon Places were also influenced by conceptual artist Ed Ruscha, whose book of serial paintings, Thirty-Four Parking Lots, took Warholian monotony to a whole other level.
Ms. Lee was among them, producing tightly pared-back, serial paintings using obsessive and repetitive markings laid down in a strict grid structure, never deviating from the mission or allowing her imagination or emotion to enter the creative process (left, a detail of "Painting #3," 1978).
Tiny serial paintings by a determined landscapist are visible in several boroughs if you look hard enough, while Madison Square Park has a fragment of a Japanese garden, where it snows three times a week -- but with temperatures approaching triple digits, you have to be very fast to catch it.
