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Untitled (Light Painting, Grid)


Mary Corse, Untitled (Light Painting, Grid), 1970, glass microspheres and acrylic on canvas, Bequest of Marcia Simon Weisman, © artist or other rights holder, 1997.191.2

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Title

Untitled (Light Painting, Grid)

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Artist

Mary Corse (American, born 1945)

Date

1970

Medium

glass microspheres and acrylic on canvas

Dimensions (H x W x D)

108 in x 108 in x 3 in

Collection Area

Modern and Contemporary Art

Category

Paintings

Object Type

painting

Culture

American

Credit Line

Bequest of Marcia Simon Weisman

Accession Number

1997.191.2

Copyright

© artist or other rights holder

Terms

acrylic paint

canvas

glass

paintings

Description

As a student in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s, Mary Corse was inspired by the abstract compositions and color theories of artists like Josef Albers. She soon began to use non-traditional materials like Plexiglas, fluorescent lights, and glass beads to create changing light effects across the surfaces of her paintings. Corse is one of the few women artists associated with the Light and Space movement, a loosely knit group of artists in Southern California working with aspects of Minimalism, Op art, and geometric abstraction.

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