SOL LEWITT'S WALL DRAWINGS OPEN NEW DOORS FOR THE IMAGINATION.(What's Happening)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: June 27, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

At first glance, Sol LeWitt's gigantic drawings look like treatments from interior decorating books. They could be the kind of splattered paint that's sponged on by upscale do-it-yourselfers.

It would be sad to think of the refined cerebral idealism of 1960s conceptual art reduced to faux finishes. First impressions to the contrary, though, that idealism has not been reduced, but enriched.

No sane decorator would advise LeWitt's choices. His colored ink panels painted directly on the wall at the Donald Young Gallery include dark plum grays, poisonous yellow-greens and ...

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