Ellsworth Kelly at Matthew Marks. (New York).(Brief Article) From: Art in America | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: Westfall, Stephen | COPYRIGHT 2002 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In abstract painting, the last vestige of illusionism is a sense of psychological interiority, as in the muffled darkness of a Reinhardt, the not-so-veiled labor intensiveness of Marden's early multipanel paintings, even the ash-light emotionalism in Agnes Martin's restrained marriage of human touch to the grid. None of these routes toward romanticism is taken by Ellsworth Kelly, who risks a chilliness or remoteness overtaking his work, as it sometimes does in his sculpture, in par...

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