Sun Corner 1968

Helen Frankenthaler made this print, ‘Sun Corner,’ with flat planes of color and line. I imagine it was a real dance of seeing what these shapes could do. Thinking about Frankenthaler at work, I imagine her experimenting with how much the paint bleeds into the canvas. The juicy blue arc, the vibrant yellow, these aren't just colors but feelings, and they mix together on the canvas, making something unexpected. Then there are the lines: the delicate red frame, the lone green stroke, almost like fragile afterthoughts. There’s a push and pull. Frankenthaler was always in conversation with her peers, especially someone like Morris Louis, figuring out how to make color sing, how to let it flow and breathe. Painting is like that, a continuous exchange across time, where artists encourage one another to see and feel in new ways. It embraces not knowing and multiple takes.