CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/12/2016

Ellsworth Kelly

The monumental American abstract painter Ellsworth Kelly died last month at the age of 92. His originality and influence were, and will remain, epic. In Matthew Marks Gallery's 2011 collection of Ellsworth Kelly Reliefs, Robert Storr writes of finding solace in Kelly's "acute formal solicitude, release from frenzy, and distraction in the mind-clearing presentness that has been the past and remains the future of his art." He continues, "Brancusi was right: 'It is one thing to see far; it is another to get there.'" Featured image is "Red Curve Relief" (2010).