“My work consists of solids and veils…it is constructed painting, in that it crosses the void between object and viewer, to be part of the space in front of the picture plane. It represents an act of pure passage.”
Sam Gilliam

Left: Jack Whitten, Chinese Sincerity, 1974. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. © Jack Whitten.
Right: Kenneth Noland, Wild Indigo, 1967. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. ©Kenneth Noland.