Kiss the Band with Your Eyes

PETER ALEXANDER H E AT H E R C A R S O N WENDELL CASTLE MARY CORSE LADDIE JOHN DILL H E L E N PA S H G I A N D e WA I N VA L E N T I N E

KISS THE BAND WITH YOUR EYES The powers of the eye, much like the brain, are under utilized. A group of artists from Southern California in the 60s set out to coax the eye to reach its full potential; at least in its capacity to drink in the euphoric powers of light, space and the purity of form and color. Attempts by critics to label them—terms like Light and Space, Finish Fetishists, West Coast Minimalists, have fallen far short from marrying label with visual achievement. The pupil dilates and pins when observing these works the way the heart races from new romance as the eye struggles to orient and determine whether the light illuminates from within the work or in reflection.

For the Armory Show 2011, Franklin Parrasch Gallery and Nyehaus bring together a selection of works by Peter Alexander, Mary Corse, Heather Carson, Laddie John Dill, Helen Pashgian, and DeWain Valentine from historic as well recent explorations of the phenomenological.

MARY CORSE Untitled (From the Inner Band Series), 1997 Glass microspheres in acrylic on canvas 84 x 84 inches

PETER ALEXANDER May 2, 1971, 1971 Cast polyester resin 67x 70 x .5 inches

PETER ALEXANDER Slow Red Drip, 2011 Cast polyester resin 26 x18 x 1.25 inches

PETER ALEXANDER Pale White Drip, 2011 Cast polyester resin 26 x18 x 1.25 inches

PETER ALEXANDER Untitled (Drip), 1970 Wax on paper 26.5 x 17.5 inches

PETER ALEXANDER Untitled (Drip), 1970 Wax on paper 27.5 x 17.5 inches

PETER ALEXANDER Untitled (Drip), 1970 Wax on paper 27.75 x 17.25 inches

PETER ALEXANDER Untitled (Drip), 1970 Wax on paper 27.75 x 17.25 inches

PETER ALEXANDER Untitled (Drip), 1970 Wax on board 27.25 x 19.5 inches

HEATHER CARSON light/ALBERS: Metal Halide/Cool White/Sunlight, 2010 Metal Halide, flourescent, aluminum pipe, Speed-Rail, conduit fittings 31 x 31 inches

WENDELL CASTLE Molar Group, circa 1969 Gel-coated fiberglass-reinforced plastic 25 x 52 x 32.5 inches

LADDIE JOHN DILL Light Sentence, 1971 Argon .5 x 84 inches

LADDIE JOHN DILL Light Sentence, 1971 Argon .5 x 73 inches

LADDIE JOHN DILL Light Sentence, 1971 Argon 84 x .5 inches

HELEN PASHGIAN Untitled, 1968/69 Cast sphere, clear polyester resin, acrylic insert 8 in. diameter

DeWAIN VALENTINE Double Yellow Disk - Red Edge, 1966 Fiberglass reinforced polyester 64 x 64 x 56 inches

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