Mary Corse : a survey in light /

Mary Corse's first solo museum survey is a long overdue examination of this singular artist's career. Initially trained as an abstract painter, Corse (b. 1945, Berkeley, CA) emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement. She shared...

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Author / Creator: Conaty, Kim (Author)
Other Authors / Creators:Clark, Robin contributor.
Govan, Michael, contributor.
Lowry, Alexis, contributor.
Reed, David, 1946- contributor.
Corse, Mary, 1945- Works. Selections.
Other Corporate Authors / Creators:Whitney Museum of American Art, issuing body, host institution.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, host institution.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, [2018]
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505 0 |a Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- Light + Space + Art / Kim Conaty -- Early works -- Optical Baths of Radiance: Mary Corse's Light Boxes / Robin Clark -- White Light, Black Light, and Black Earth Paintings -- Grounded Light: The Black Earth Series / Alexis Lowry -- White Light Inner Band Paintings -- The Language of Not Knowing / David Reed -- Corse Correction / Michael Govan -- Timeline and Exhibition History / Melinda Lang. 
500 |a This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Mary Corse: A Survey in Light, organized by Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints, with Melinda Lang, curatorial assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 8-November 25, 2018, and at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 28-November 10, 2019. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a Mary Corse's first solo museum survey is a long overdue examination of this singular artist's career. Initially trained as an abstract painter, Corse (b. 1945, Berkeley, CA) emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement. She shared with her contemporaries a deep fascination with perception and with the possibility that light itself could serve as both a subject and material of art. Yet while others largely migrated away from painting into sculptural and environmental projects, Corse approached the question of light through painting. This focused exhibition highlights critical moments of experimentation as Corse engaged with tropes of modernist painting, from the monochrome to the grid, while charting her own course through studies in quantum physics and complex investigations into a range of "painting" materials, from fluorescent light and Plexiglas to metallic flakes, glass microspheres, and clay. The survey will bring together for the first time Corse's key bodies of work-including her early shaped canvases, freestanding sculptures, and light encasements that she engineered in the mid-1960s, in her early twenties, as well as her breakthrough White Light Paintings, begun in 1968, and the Black Earth Series that she initiated after moving in 1970 from downtown Los Angeles to Topanga Canyon, where she lives and works today. 
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