Howard SmithTomorrow isn't Yesterday

New and historical paintings by Howard Smith tracing five decades of freehand brushwork and the balance of painted and bare canvas.

Spanning five decades, the show traces Howard Smith’s study of the single freehand brushstroke and the balance between painted and bare canvas, from the reduced Red Shape (1966) to the dense, light-filled marks of Orange over Green (1981).

His quasi-grid paintings loosen a hand-drawn grid into color and gesture, part of an ongoing series, while the circular Black Circle (2000) turns the canvas itself into part of the composition. A new monograph on Smith accompanies the show.

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