Untitled (Epsilon #1), Study for City Light Mural 1975

Artist Francis Celentano

MediumAcrylic on paper

Dimensions22 x 41 in. (55.9 x 104.1 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineSeattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection

An extensive exhibition history, combined with a 30 year teaching career at the University of Washington in Seattle, has firmly cemented Celentano’s position as one of the major figures in the perceptual and color theory work that emerged in the 1960s. His painting can be found in numerous museum collections worldwide, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum in New York, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Museo de Arts Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires.

From 1973 to 1974 I executed vertical paintings consisting of strips of plastic cut at first from two, and later one pre-painted surface with gradient color. The cut strips were then rotated and/or displaced in relation to each other. I called this first series using precut bands of color “Iota”. I used the same method for the Epsilon series. –Artist statement