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Mary Obering The Chinese Place , 1975
Acrylic on canvas, 82 × 72 in. Courtesy the artist and Bortolami, New York Collection of Javier and Monica Mora
In the 1970s, in an exploration of the three-dimensional possibilities of paint, Obering tacked overlapping strips of painted canvas to the top of a mono- chromatic base. This resulted in a framed arrangement of squares and rect- angles, with subtly visible joins between them. Painted here in black, white, and a deep Pompeii red—echoing the adjacent fragment—these shapes evoke the illusion of receding space through a window, perhaps that of the large, shuttered apertures in the artist’s SoHo loft studio. —HJ
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