"#7 - 1967"
Peter Young
American, born 1940
1967
A nine-by-nine-foot painting in synthetic polymer paint on canvas in which Peter Young lays down countless tiny, multicolored marks to create a shimmering field that tests rhythm, chance, and perception.
From a distance the surface reads as a pale, vibrating mist of pinpricks, while up close each minute dab of blue, pink, and yellow resolves into a delicate, calligraphic gesture.
Made in 1967, the work moves beyond hard-edged Minimalism toward process-driven, perceptual painting, using serialized, near-random marks to make surface, time, and the viewer's gaze the subject of the work.
Medium
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Dimensions
9' x 9' (274.5 x 274.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Philip Johnson
Accession
105.1976
Palette
Exhibitions
