Relief, Series B 1967

Charlotte Posenenske made Relief, Series B at an unknown time. The reliefs are so simply yellow! You get the sense that the making was about seriality, and about the interplay of color and surface. I wonder what she was thinking about when she made these. Was she interested in a kind of modularity or a systematic construction? I imagine she must have been interested in the readymade—that is to say, the industrial object—and how it might be made into a kind of painting. The yellow feels so present, like a color exclamation. I think about the kind of art being made at the time. It has some affinities with the work of people like Donald Judd. Looking at this work, I can imagine that she was in conversation with a lot of artists. It reminds me that painting is an embodied form of expression that allows for multiple interpretations and meanings. It's not about fixed or definitive readings.