Dana South 2009

Charles Gibbons made *Dana South* using paint to create a square canvas, and boy, did he get busy with the squeegee! Just imagine the act of repeatedly dragging the paint across the surface, leaving these rhythmic, textured stripes. It's almost hypnotic, like watching waves on a beach. The bright yellow meeting the acidic green, punctuated by hits of purple, must have been such a thrill to orchestrate. I wonder if Gibbons ever felt like he was conducting an orchestra of color and texture. This singular gesture is everything. There's an openness in Gibbons's work that gets me thinking about other process-based painters, and how each artist builds their own visual language through repetition, and in the end, they inspire us to keep the conversation going, too.