Ellsworth Kelly: Los Angeles

Los Angeles documents six new two-panel paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, each made from a single shaped canvas featuring a dramatic curve carefully painted with many coats of a bright color (blue, green, yellow, orange). These curved panels are attached to a rectangular canvas painted in a contrasting color. Also reproduced here are a group of 1952€“54 collages that Kelly made in Paris as a young man, including €œStudy for Black and White Panels,€ as well as the 1966 painting €œBlack over White.€ All of these works provide the inspiration for Kelly€s monumental sculpture installed on the fa§ade of the Matthew Marks Gallery. Among his largest works, Kelly€s new Los Angeles sculpture is the first to incorporate a building€s architecture into his own work: in one succinct gesture, the gallery€s entire fa§ade has become part of his sculpture.