GRIDS

Untitled Grid Piece and Color Study 

Gouache on Paper, 18 Panels

51 x 69 1/2" Overall

Dimensions Variable

2009

Untitled Grid Piece / Color Study (5.16.08 - 9.14.09)

Gouache on Paper

18 Panels 

51 x 69 1/2" overall; dimensions variable

2009

Artist Notations:


Panel 1: Top Margin: MS LT GRN 1 2.1 ROWLeft Bottom Margin: 1 Right Bottom Margin: BEGUN 5.16.08

Panel 2: Top Margin: MS 2 WHT PER ROW Top Right Margin: WH 2 Left Bottom Margin: 2 Right Bottom Margin: E

Panel 3: Top Margin: MS G1 / 3 Left Bottom Margin: 3

Panel 4: Top Margin: MS (1) YELLOW PER ROW (X) Left Bottom Margin: 1 Right Bottom Margin: B Note: Pair of X's denoting Blue at 4th column 15th row

Panel 5: Top Margin: MS CERULEAN BLUE FOUR SPACES BETWEEN SQUARES Left Side Margin: POSERS PAINT PAINTINGS IN CHINA Left Bottom Margin: 5 Right Bottom Margin: F

Panel 6: Top Margin: MS circled A BLUE - SPACE - circled B BLUE Left Bottom Margin: 6 Right Side Margin: circled A, circled B denoting colors of blue. Column 20, row 36 and row 38.

Panel 7: Top Margin: MS P BLUE 2 PER ROW (written upside down) PRUSSIAN Left Bottom Margin: 7 Right Bottom Margin: D Right Side Margin: C at rows 40, 42, 49

Panel 8: Top Margin: MS  WH 1, 2; LY 1, 1, 2, 0 (denotes white blocks per row, light yellow blocks per row) Left Bottom Margin: 8

Panel 9: Top Margin: MS 3 PINK PER COLUMN COPING MECHANISMS over column 3, row 1 denoting color. Left Bottom Margin: 9 Right Bottom Margin: A Bottom Margin: row 20, mark denoting color-match.

Panel 10: Top Margin: MS   RED A  1, 3, 1 Left Bottom Margin: 10 Right Side Margin: Column 20, row 21 circled A denoting color.

Panel 11: Top Margin: MS  GRN X 1, 3, 1 PDM COMPLETED 9.14.09 * MARKS COMPLETION ( at column 8, row 21); X denoting color at column 14. Left Bottom Margin: 11 Left Side Margin: 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3 repeating rows 1 - 60.  PDM at row 33. Right Side Margin: 9.14.09

Panel 12: Top Margin: MS   WH - - = (denotes whites paired parallel and white paired adjacent separated by one random color block) Left Bottom Margin: 12

Panel 13: Top Margin: MS BL 1 PER COLUMN (denoted by X in right side margin.  46th row, 20th column) Left Bottom Margin: 13 Left Side Margin: THINKIN I HEARD YOUR NAME Right Bottom Margin: C

Panel 14: Top Margin: MS circled B, GRN PAIRS SEP BY ONE Left Bottom Margin: 14 Left Side Margin: DOWN AMONG THE JUNIPERS

Panel 15: Top Margin: MS (CR) 2 PINK / COLUMN, YELLOW 3 (underscored 3). Left Bottom Margin: 15 Left Side Margin: Arrow at column 1 row 59 denoting (CR) Pink

Panel 16: Top Margin: MS  B ASCENDING 1-5 DESCENDING 5-1; B denoting color at row 1, column 10.Left Bottom Margin: 16 Left Side Margin: Column 1, row 10 and 11: 1, row 15 and 16: 5, row 20 and 21: 1,  row 23: 3, row 25 and 26: 5, row 30 and 31: 1, row 35 and 36: 5, row 40 and 41: 1, row 45 and 46: 5, row 50: circled 1, row 51: 1, row 56 and 57: 5.Right Side Margin: Column 20, beginning row 47 - ending row 60: 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Panel 17: Top Margin: MS   TURQ GRN 1, 2, 3, PER ROWLeft Bottom Margin: 17 Left Side Margin: All column 1; row 16: circled 1, row 17: circled 2 / 4, row 18: 3, row 19: 1. GLISTENING PLEASURE

Panel 18: Top Margin: MS X PER ROW Left Bottom Margin: circled 18 Right Side Margin: EMPTY PICTURES

Notes:
In the tradition of the color grid explored by Mondrian, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, et al. UNTITLED GRID PIECE / COLOR STUDY (5.16.08 - 9.14.09) was created to examine color combinations in both random and systematic manners.  In each individual panel there is a dictating color which creates a pattern within that panel. This dictating color does not repeat as a dictating color in subsequent panels and each pattern is unique. All 18 panels however share the same color palette.
Colors applied in a random, process-oriented, mediative manner are disturbed or offset by the cognitive exercise of utilizing a dictating color to produce a systematic approach and non-repeating patterns.

On 18 panels:

According to the Kabalistic “Sefer Yetzirah”, the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet are the building blocks of the universe. Later Kabbalistic works explain that there is a connection between objects and ideas that have the same Gematria (numerical equivalent), or other letter connections. Thus in some way, anything that equals 18 has a connection to Chai/Life.  18 panels for UNTITLED GRID PIECE / COLOR STUDY (5.16.08 - 9.14.09) were chosen for this significance.

Untitled Grid Piece, Color Study 2.10, [600 Squares] 

Gouache on Paper

(K&E 10 x 10 to 1/2" 47 1320)

16 1/2 x 11"

2010

Exhibited: 

Matthew Satz: Works on View, Leadapron

Los Angeles, September 2012