Tree Zone

The entire series of works for "Tree Zone" by Nicolai Howalt is exceptional. A show I greatly admire:

The Non-neutrality of White

Robert Ryman

[like] “Inuit who can read with precision a comparably narrow spectrum of snow and ice, Ryman has cataloged white’s actual variety, thus ironically demonstrating its latent non-neutrality when seen in relation to itself.”
~Robert Storr

Erasing

Just found this blog "erasing" -specializing in lots of white/high-key and minimal art works. Recommended.

Variations on a Theme

Theodor Kittelsen

Blur Collection

A mirror with a silk screened white gradient at the bottom - part of the "Blur Collection" by Big-Game - found at todayandtomorrow.

Here's my own fade-to-white taken from the road this weekend:

Fresh Start

Spring semester starts today for me. Here are a few classic white art works to help symbolize a fresh start (even white can be reinvented):

Kazimir Malevich. Suprematist Composition: White on White. 1918. Oil on canvas, 31 1/4 x 31 1/4" . 1935 (photo by Nathan Abels)Robert Rauschenberg, 1951

Wolfgang Laib, Milk stone, 1980
marble and milk
2.6 (h) x 91.9 (w) x 74.2 (d) cm

Tom Friedman, 1,000 Hours of Staring, 1992-97
stare on paper
32 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.