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Creator

Mary Corse

Title

Untitled

Date Created

1969

Spatial Coverage

275 cm x 276 cm (108 1/4 in. x 108 11/16 in.)

Identifier

1979.25

Medium

Acrylic with glass microspheres on canvas

Description

Mary Corse intends for her monochromatic paintings to be immersive experiences. In 1968 the artist began a series of large-scale, white grid paintings, mixing acrylic paint with glass microspheres—a material used to give road signs and dividing lines their reflective look—to transform the flat canvas into a luminescent plane. The result encourages movement around the work’s surface, inviting us to engage with its projected light from a variety of angles and distances. Indeed, viewers must encounter it experientially, as it cannot accurately be captured in photographs. As Corse explained in an interview, “When I first started putting glass microspheres in paint, I was really putting the light inside the painting. I didn’t want to paint a picture of the experience of light—I wanted the painting to be the light experience itself.”

Rights Holder

Gift of Mari and James A. Michener, 1979

Date

Berkeley, California, 1945 -

Type

painting

Has Version

http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/plugins/Dropbox/files/object_images/ART New/1979.25.zif

Requires

15096
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