Blog #26, Helen Frankenthaler at Gagosian Gallery, Chelsea, New York March 16, 2023 catherineabramsartworks.com DRAWINGS WITHIN NATURE:Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler ΣΧΕΔΙΑΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΜΕΣΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΦΥΣΗ΄Πινακες της Ελεν Φρανκενθαλερ στην γκαλλερη Γκαγκοσιαν στην Νεα Υορκη. My pictures are full of climates, abstract climates, and not nature per se. But a feeling. And the feeling of an order that is associated more with nature. Nature in seasons, maybe; but nature in, well, an order. And I think art itself is order out of chaos. —Helen Frankenthaler From the Press Release of the gallery: "Frankenthaler’s celebrated 1952 composition, Mountains and Sea , was the first of her soak-stained canvases and was highly influential in the development of 1960s Color Field painting. By the 1970s, though, she had amplified her methods to include the expressive possibilities of surface inflection and density. Over the course of the 1980s, highly painterly canvases became her principal pictor...
