Ellsworth Kelly: spectrum colors arranged by chance

Abstract

In October and November of 1951, Ellsworth Kelly produced a series of eight large-scale collages. Each of the works consisted of papier gommette, sticky colored paper used by French schoolchildren, cut into squares and arranged by chance in a 40-inch-wide grid formation. These collages are key early works in Kelly's career, showing his experiments with chance, his constructive use of color, and the evolution of his impersonal aesthetic.

Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: new perspectives on Ellsworth Kelly's Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance / Caitlin Haskell -- Step back and let it happen: a roundtable on Ellsworth Kelly's Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance / with Giampaolo Bianconi, Caitlin Haskell, Hannah B Higgins, Jacqueline Humphries, and Jack Shear ; edited by Giampaolo Bianconi -- Plates -- Installation views -- Contributors.