Untitled 1993

This grey and ghostly abstract painting was made by Moshe Kupferman, but when? There’s a grid here, scratched, almost ghostly, and a lot of veils. The work seems to emerge slowly from the ground – from trial, error, and intuition. I wonder what Kupferman was thinking? Maybe he wanted to make a painting about the sensation of something barely there? Or the sensation of a memory, slipping away? There are touches of muted green and pink underneath the grey – ghostly colors. This reminds me of other painters working in the space of the grid, like Agnes Martin. All of these artists were in conversation with each other, trying to capture the ineffable, using the language of gesture and form. Painting like this is an ongoing exploration. It embraces ambiguity, offering multiple ways of seeing and feeling the world.