At the Agnes Martin Gallery, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos
Cynthia Hogue
Here one says Look between the lines
Penciled straight in free form making “grid paintings” that run the canvas’ length
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white or shadow-
blue brush strokes that they track: light
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and white and off-
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I make a note of
what the method looks like
having no words for what – it is –“Perfect Day” – I think –
An abstraction of
light off the
horizon from
Taos Mesa in summer
might characterize
the line’s relation to
all the artist saw(all wrong)
:
If
(Beauty is the mystery of life)And
To have a clear idea of how
to proceed is not a beautiful
image but a direction
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Then
(In our minds there is awareness of perfection)
My imposition of
interpretation differs from her realm: to see isnot to know the mind’s dis-
position ar-
ranged in lines cast across the canvas
which she painted in confident strokesall her life, “she” an immutable sign of
solitude, hardiness (and I’m told joy), a perfectly
clear fable of the artist’s labor
to keep the painting freeof things: as evidence the lines
which are not her perception tra-
versing space, and not translucent but of all things simply a-
(ligned)
